Windows binary only for HTML minification part

[dehghani-mehdi]

Windows binary only for HTML minification part

[tdewolff]

Hi Mehdi, using the original Go compiler (or gc) will always results in large binaries 6 MB upwards, even a simple hello world. The difference of only a HTML minifier or all minifiers is probably a differences of much less than a megabyte. The "problem" is that gc compiles statically and contain all code it requires. There's no way to reduces this besides using the -ldflags "-s -w" -trimpath options to go build (which are already applied to the binaries on GitHub).

You're only option is to use UPX which now supports Go binaries at the cost of a small performance hit on start-up (in short, it compresses the executable and extracts itself upon execution), or you could try the gcc-go compiler, which compiles dynamically to all system libraries and will result in significantly smaller executables (much like the gcc for C programs). I don't think TinyGo will be able to compile the library, but that would be even smaller still.