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Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1998 19:01:55 -0700
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Allens wrote:
> 
> I'm suprised at the MinG size, as it relies on crtdll.dll which provides the
> entire c runtime.  This seems very strange.

I can't understand it either. Even that little testwin.c that comes with
minG weighs in at 301K, and that is only a button. Another 170K on top
of that for some common controls stuff makes me wonder if after minG
converts a .dll into a lib*.a, if it doesn't somehow static link the dll
functions. Sounds farfetched, but the sizes are about the same as I've
seen between building an ActiveX control that uses dll's on a client
versus the ATL build that brings it's own support.