Build Sizes

Unity Engine
1

The numbers below are for a project with one cube, one camera, and one scene. None of the standard or other assets were included.

The upshot is that around 14MB of “something” extra (i.e., debug symbols) is being compiled in. Since there are only three objects in the entire project, this seems a little excessive. I bring this up because I have noticed that builds can get ununusually large. I wasn’t sure if this was an artifact of running Unity on an Intel Mac, or if this was normal behavior. I do understand that around 10MB (spread between the frameworks and the binary) is the minimum to provide core functionality.

Universal Binary

Zelda:~/Desktop/test_unity_project/build_with_cube.app/Contents flip$ du -sk * | sort -n
4       Info.plist
4       PkgInfo
24      Data
1348    Resources
8668    Frameworks
29036   MacOS
Zelda:~/Desktop/test_unity_project/build_with_cube.app/Contents flip$ ls -l MacOS/
total 58072
-rwxr-xr-x   1 flip  flip  29731960 Apr  8 11:09 test_unity_project

Intel Only

Zelda:~/Desktop/test_unity_project/build_with_cube_intel_only.app/Contents flip$ du -sk * | sort -n
4       Info.plist
4       PkgInfo
24      Data
1348    Resources
5252    Frameworks
19948   MacOS
Zelda:~/Desktop/test_unity_project/build_with_cube_intel_only.app/Contents flip$ ls -l MacOS/
total 39896
-rwxr-xr-x   1 flip  flip  20425120 Apr  8 11:17 test_unity_project

Intel Only, strip debug

Zelda:~/Desktop/test_unity_project/build_with_cube_intel_only_stripped.app/Contents flip$ du -sk * | sort -n
4       Info.plist
4       PkgInfo
24      Data
1348    Resources
5252    Frameworks
5712    MacOS
Zelda:~/Desktop/test_unity_project/build_with_cube_intel_only_stripped.app/Contents flip$ ls -l MacOS/
total 11424
-rwxr-xr-x   1 flip  flip  5846888 Apr  8 11:21 test_unity_project

Intel Only, compress textures and strip debug

Zelda:~/Desktop/test_unity_project/build_with_cube_intel_only_compress_and_strip.app/Contents flip$ du -sk * | sort -n
4       Info.plist
4       PkgInfo
24      Data
1348    Resources
5252    Frameworks
5712    MacOS
Zelda:~/Desktop/test_unity_project/build_with_cube_intel_only_compress_and_strip.app/Contents flip$ ls -l MacOS/
total 11424
-rwxr-xr-x   1 flip  flip  5846888 Apr  8 11:20 test_unity_project
2

Debug symbols are from the frameworks and executable - they’re a constant overhead, and not related to your project size.

3

Ok, thanks.