From: Forsberg Sakari <zacu AT cc DOT tut DOT fi>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Exe size help
Date: 17 Nov 1999 11:55:12 GMT
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Raul Carolus <carolura AT luther DOT edu> wrote:
> Ok, I'm baffled, my exe compiled from C++, using Allegro and the Allegttf
> libraries is well over 1 meg..  Everything I've tried to reduce the size
> (optimizing out the wazoo, no debug, even the stuff in the Allegro
> documnetation didn't help much) has only resulted in a 50k or so reduction.

> What else can I try to get my exe size down?  Thanks.

How many lines you have in your program?

try 'strip myprog.exe'

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