documentation on building the cygwin dll

[Elfyn McBratney]

On Thu, 24 Jul 2003, Carlo Florendo wrote:

> Hello Sam,
> 
> > From: "Robb, Sam"
> >  Don't know if this will help, but I've attached a makefile
> > and script that I use to do a checkout and build of the Cygwin
> > DLL source from CVS.
> 
> I was able to build the dll with your script.  However, how come the 
> new-cygwin1.dll size is over 6 MB?  Is this correct?  I've checked the
> latest version of cygwin1.dll and its size is less than 1 MB.

The DLL you've built contains all available symbols, whereas the distributed DLL 
is stripped (of those symbols).

$ strip new-cygwin.dll

Elfyn

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