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From: flyboy AT ari DOT net (Nathaniel Meo)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Size optimizations?
Date: Sun, 21 Jul 1996 02:06:12 GMT
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jstev AT gladstone DOT uoregon DOT edu (Josh Stevens) wrote:

>Hi...

>Sorry if this is in the FAQ, but *I* sure couldn't find it.  Are there
>any optimizations you guys can suggest that would reduce the size of a
>C++ .exe file?  The reason I ask is that I'm getting sizes of well
>over 1 MB for a relatively simple test program that manipulates and
>draws some scaled bitmaps (and has no user interface).  Sure, I
>expected the .exe to be large -- I'm using STL and lots of inline
>functions -- but does it have to be this large?  Thanks.

Try using -s if your not debugging. This strips symbol information
which can take up a third of the EXE at times and makes it a lot
smaller. Also get a copy of DJP 1.04 to compress EXE's. It can be
found with the DJGPP distribution under v2misc.

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Nathaniel Meo <flyboy AT ari DOT net>
Coordinator of The DJGPP Book Project
http://www2.ari.net/flyboy/