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Re: why such large exe files ?
- To: Joseph Rosenzweig <sleepysamjaya at netscape dot net>, cygwin at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- Subject: Re: why such large exe files ?
- From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd at yahoo dot com>
- Date: Tue, 21 Sep 1999 17:40:08 -0700 (PDT)
- Reply-To: earnie_boyd at yahoo dot com
--- Joseph Rosenzweig <sleepysamjaya@netscape.net> wrote:
> I upgraded to version 20.1 and egcs 2.95
> and now when I compile my programs
> using the same options as before
> the exe files are over 300 KB.
> Before with version 20 the same
> programs were only maybe
> 20 KB. I think maybe there is some
> default option in the compiler or
> linker that is different. I would
> rather have smaller exe files what
> can I do?
>
> Thanks for any info
>
This isn't a real problem. The libraries have debug info in them and get built
into your program. Strip my.exe will reduce the size of the binary.
===
Earnie Boyd <mailto:earnie_boyd@yahoo.com>
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