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DLF, a tool to reduce the size of your packages
Written by Alexis Wilke
Orangevale, California
February 16, 2008

Made to Order Software presents DLF. A tool used to search for the dynamic libraries necessary for your software to run properly.

Quite often, our customers and ourselves, we need to create a package with all the software we program for clients. At times, it is a simple situation where the package is used once in one location and voila. In that case, you can take all the files, put them on one or more CD or DVD and deliver the entire set of files.

There are, however, situations when this is not as easy. The software is created for vertical market meaning that you want to sell it to thousand or even millions of people. The more data on the CD the more costly it is to do the duplication. Imagine that you could remove 10 DLLs each being over 1Mb in size. That would represent at least 10Mb saving on the CD. Just that small saving could be enough for you to save several thousand dollars in replication. Even more if all of a sudden your software fits a CD instead of a DVD!

The DLF tool helps you by telling you exactly what libraries are required for your software. The final result is a very small set of libraries in your package. As small as it can be.

And note that all versions of DLF works for three file formats: MS-Windows (PEI), Linux (ELF), and Mac OS/X (MACH-O). This means you can run DLF just and only on MS-Windows to parse MS-Windows, Linux, and Mac OS/X files; or just on Linux and parse MS-Windows, Linux, and Mac OS/X files; etc.

Alexis Wilke
CEO
Made to Order Software Corporation

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