From: Jason Green <news AT jgreen4 DOT fsnet DOT co DOT uk>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: How to tell DJGPP to make a C program
Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2000 23:53:05 +0100
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"Thorsten Erdmann" <thorsten DOT erdmann AT gmx DOT de> wrote:

> I have written an application which only use C commands, no C++. How can I
> tell the compiler/linker to leave out all that C++ stuff. 

What leads you to believe the problem is due to C++ components?

> My application
> gets very big, nearly 800K and I often get Out of memory errors during
> launching of it. So I hope to get it smaller that way.

Exactly what errors do you get?

> Okay, I can compress it, but the decompressing on startup is very slow on
> the target 486 system. Any idea how to decrease the size of the executable?

The FAQ explains this in some detail in section 8.14 "Why are DJGPP
`.exe' files so large?"