From: shankar@chromatic.com (Shankar Unni) Subject: Re: cygwin.dll 17 Jan 1997 20:49:52 -0800 Approved: cygnus.gnu-win32@cygnus.com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: <32DFC713.20267199.cygnus.gnu-win32@chromatic.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01Gold (X11; I; Linux 2.0.18 i586) Original-To: James Osburn Original-CC: gnu-win32@cygnus.com Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32@cygnus.com James Osburn wrote: > First the cygwin.dll is to large It should not > contain the unix to win32 interface. Folks: cygwin.dll is *NOT* that large. If you run "size" on it, you'll see that the active parts (text+data+bss) are actually only 330K (not 3MB). The size of the file is obviously due to debug information and the like, but 3MB are *NOT* being loaded into memory. So relax. I'm sure the production cygwin.dll will be much more svelte (shouldn't be much more than 500K, if compiled without -g). There should be a separate cygwindebug.dll with full debug information, for those who want to debug their programs and step into the libraries. -- Shankar Unni shankar@chromatic.com Chromatic Research (408) 752-9488 - For help on using this list, send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".