Reduce application size?

I posted the same question a few days ago. I didn't get any replies but here's what I've been able to determine on my own (under Mac OS) and from the documentation:

A basic standalone has grown from around 30 MB (Max 5) to 100 MB (Max 6).

When you build a standalone, your patcher is saved as a collective along with the Max 6 runtime application and other frameworks and resources. The executable binary in Max 6 runtime has grown in size: 27.3 MB (compared to 12.7 MB under Max 5). Unless you have a friend at Cycling '74 who could give you a custom compile of a lightweight Max, you'll just have to live with bigger standalones.

Two things, however, can help reduce the overall size up to 60%, depending on what your standalone needs to run:

**Save 50 MB** Include the standalone object in your top-level patcher and in the inspector, disable anything you don't need. Consider extensions, database, MIDI support and audio support.

**Save 12 MB** Control-click on the application to *Show Package Contents*. Consider junking any frameworks you don't use, like JitterAPI.framework, MaxLua.framework and (possibly) libmozjs185.dylib (I assume it's safe to remove these frameworks if you don't access them – I have my doubts about libmozjs, though).

Anyway, those two steps alone reduce your standalone to under 40 MB. That's about as good as it gets. Still too big? Well, a fully stripped standalone under Max 5 would be ~20 MB. You could also consider stripping out some interface files but that's only going to save another 1-2 MB.