From: Damian Yerrick Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: EXE files too big! Organization: Pin Eight Software http://pineight.8m.com/ Message-ID: References: <8bjhuu$8pt$1 AT newssrv DOT otenet DOT gr> X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.7/32.534 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 25 X-Trace: /Kw5eDS+5HLEXMuvMJdDWwq4u5/SLnFIxp0CEBD/BSoD29w4xpW38CCq+prcHqbe5CmZwtLZ/Eqv!kadsoVCZwsnspEJjRNGwfkmdgbbYgVGZ5prCqx75dri6JcfpUKB75UPCYp7Jtw7H9APUlZ0VHQoq!1eOPwlE= X-Complaints-To: abuse AT gte DOT net X-Abuse-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2000 00:25:13 GMT Distribution: world Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2000 00:25:13 GMT To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com On Sun, 26 Mar 2000 01:27:12 +0200, "Bad Sector" wrote: >I saw that DJGPP creates very big files. DJGPP stores many debugging >info in EXE files. That is good for debugging my apps, but if i want >to give these apps to others they must be smaller. the question is: >how can i turn off this debugging info? Here's what I do: 1. Download and install UPX. http://upx.tsx.org/ 2. Run UPX on your executables. c:\>upx -9 foo.exe UPX strips the debugging symbols from DJGPP/COFF executables, compresses what's left (code and data tables), and adds a decompressor stub at the beginning. -- Damian Yerrick "I refuse to listen to those who refuse to listen to reason." See the whole sig: http://www.rose-hulman.edu/~yerricde/sig.html This is McAfee VirusScan. Add these two lines to your signature to prevent the spread of signature viruses. http://www.mcafee.com/