documentation on building the cygwin dll

[Igor Pechtchanski]

On Thu, 24 Jul 2003, Elfyn McBratney wrote:

> 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

Carlo,

Note, though, that once you strip the DLL, it becomes non-debuggable, just
like the one on the mirrors. ;-)
	Igor
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