why such large exe files ?

[Suhaib M. Siddiqi]

Strip your exe
strip *.exe

If your makefile have gcc -g flag you get debug version of
your executables, which you can strip.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-owner@sourceware.cygnus.com
> [ mailto:cygwin-owner@sourceware.cygnus.com]On Behalf Of Joseph
> Rosenzweig
> Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 1999 6:58 PM
> To: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com
> Subject: why such large exe files ?
> 
> 
> I upgraded to version 20.1 and egcs 2.95
> and now when I compile my programs
> using the same options as before
> the exe files are over 300 KB.
> Before with version 20 the same
> programs were only maybe
> 20 KB. I think maybe there is some
> default option in the compiler or
> linker that is different. I would
> rather have smaller exe files what
> can I do?
> 
> Thanks for any info
> 
> 
> 
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