From: mhkrause AT umich DOT edu (Michael Krause)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: DJGPP makes big .exe's
Date: Wed, 17 Sep 1997 01:55:23 GMT
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On 16 Sep 1997 23:37:42 GMT, `Lord_RaT~ <avenger3 AT hotmail DOT com> wrote:

>i have been noticing that djgpp makes really big
>.exe's here is my programme keep in mind i just started 
>to programme but there arent any errors that i see
>i just want it to print two lines of text :
>void main()
>{
> printf("This is my generic programme\n");
> printf("This is fun/n");
>}
>
>now am i doing something wrong or what that 
>.exe was like 80k how can i stop this i dont
>have that much space ?
>please e-mail at avenger3 AT hotmail DOT com
>me as i probly wont be able to
>monitor this group much becaose of school
>thanks

That's cause DJGPP is linking in the entire DOS extender and probably
some debugging information. Run DJP Progname.exe.  This will strip the
debugging information and compress the executable.  This will bring
the size down to 23k.

Mike