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newbie: Why Cygwin/Egcs compiled executable is so bloated
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- Subject: newbie: Why Cygwin/Egcs compiled executable is so bloated
- From: Luke Liu <LLIU at fipsco dot com>
- Date: Fri, 19 Nov 1999 18:57:48 -0600
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. :-(((
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