Report is missing elements

[kishaningithub]

I ran this for my tool tf-import-gen. The unstripped binary size is ~6.2 MB and i wanted to look into what was causing it.

What i did

• Went into the folder where i have checkout my tf-import-gen repo
• Ran command CGO_ENABLED=0 go build
• Ran command gsa --web ./tf-import-gen
• Opened the web report

What i saw

If you see in the below screenshot the "Package Size" is 2.81 MB but the largest bar within that "Vendor packages size" ~591 KB hence i am not sure where the mega bytes are going

Screenshot 1

Screenshot 2

[Zxilly]

I test it on Linux and seems vendor packages cost 683 kb and standard library packages cost 2.23 mb.

[Zxilly]

Maybe the rendered colours are a bit misleading, I would add different colours for different package types

[kishaningithub]

I thought the unknown sections size on the right hand side (coloured in light red) which is also like 2 MB was the standard lib. Is it not?

[Zxilly]

Generally, unknown is meta information in the binary format itself, such as elf's section header and program header. but it's generally not that big, so if you can provide a sample of the binary file, I can do further analysis.

[kishaningithub]

@Zxilly Putting below all the information i can get including the binary file. Can you kindly re open this issue?

Zipped binary

tf-import-gen.zip

Size Screenshot

gsa version

$ gsa --version
gsa
  Version          v1.0.6
  Go Version       go1.22.3
  Platform         darwin/arm64

Screenshot of startup Warning message

level=WARN msg="Warning: disassembler not supported for this architecture"

[Zxilly]

It does look like there are some issues with macos support, but I think I'd have a hard time fixing it, I work on amd64 on Windows/Linux and support for other architectures and systems is basically based on documentation rather than real experience.

I test the binary from the https://github.com/kishaningithub/tf-import-gen/releases/download/v0.8.0/tf-import-gen_0.8.0_linux_amd64.tar.gz and results looks better.

As you can see from the figure, the binary size can be reduced by about 6m after stripping the symbol and debug information.

[kishaningithub]

Will check the Linux version today.. Was curious to see how much size can be reduced without removing the debug and symbol table info

[kishaningithub]

Also I can definitely help out on testing and improving this tool for Mac os

[kishaningithub]

After removing the symbol table and debug information the compressed size went from ~3MB to ~1MB :-) screenshot and link below

https://github.com/kishaningithub/tf-import-gen/releases

Screenshot

[kishaningithub]

After the removal of debug information the size reported looks correct in macos x (screenshot below)

Closing this issue for now