reduce size of Cygwin1.dll - How?

[Igor Peshansky]

On Fri, 31 Mar 2006, 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 ?

You should drop a hippo on it -- that should compress it quite nicely.

> 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.

Or you could try to ask this question on the appropriate Cygwin list.
Here, you're likely to see spurious hippo references and puns with no
technical reply.

Reading the descriptions at <http://cygwin.com/lists.html#available-lists>
is a nice first step.
	Igor
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