Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sourceware.cygnus.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com From: Chris Faylor Date: Fri, 19 Nov 1999 21:24:55 -0500 To: Luke Liu Cc: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Subject: Re: newbie: Why Cygwin/Egcs compiled executable is so bloated Message-ID: <19991119212455.A19686@cygnus.com> Mail-Followup-To: Luke Liu , cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: ; from LLIU@fipsco.com on Fri, Nov 19, 1999 at 06:57:48PM -0600 On Fri, Nov 19, 1999 at 06:57:48PM -0600, Luke Liu wrote: >I understand that it is not as easy to work with dll with cygwin as with >Visual C++ or Borland C++. However, when I compiled the Hello world program >generated by Visual C++ 6.0 wizard with Cygwin B20.1, the executable was >530KB, meanwhile the mingw32 build was 315KB. Then I got the egcs2.95.2 and >after renaming old lib for mingw32 by watching the gcc include/lib search >path, I was able to reduce the executable of hello.exe with mingw32 to >173KB. The size with Cygwin remains > 500KB. > >The compiler switch I used were > gcc -Os -mwindows -v -mno-cygwin -e _mainCRTStartup >and > gcc -Os -mwindows -v -e _mainCRTStartup > >respectively. Am I simply didn't enable the correct gcc switch? BTW, the >VC++6.0 compiled debug executable is 157KB and the released version should >be much smaller. >Thanks, > >Luke > >P.S. I found that due to some screwed security of something, I cannot post >to the solutioncentral from company. :-((( Actually, you did post to solutioncentral three times. :-) Here is my answer: By default, gcc adds debugging information to every executable. To remove this you can either add a '-s' to the gcc command line or use the strip command on the resulting executable: strip file.exe This should greatly reduce the size of the executable. cgf -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com