reduce size of Cygwin1.dll - How?

[Christopher Faylor]

On Fri, Mar 31, 2006 at 01:03:33PM -0800, bill wrote:
>I know this question has been asked before because I read the posts
>from a google on it.  Use strip on it says.  But it doesn't work for
>me.  What am I doing wrong ?
>
>Or is there another way.  I don't use cvs; I use the setup program.  Is
>there a way to configure the compile option(s) to keep the debug info
>out of the cygwin1.dll.  Mine is currently 1.73 MB.  I have seen some
>as small as 460 KB.

1) You're in the wrong mailing list.

2) The cygwin DLL does not have debug information in it.  The debugging
information is in a separate file called cygwin1.dbg.