Size of "hello world" program in c++ / cygwin
Heinz-Juergen Oertel
oe@port.de
Tue Jun 13 03:51:00 GMT 2000
It's mentioned often in the mailing-list, but my be not in the cygwin-faq
probably in the gcc faq:
use
$ gcc -s
to strip symbols from the executable
or use
$ strip file.exe
mfg
Heinz
Richard Kaye wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I couldn't find any reference to this in the FAQs or anything.
>
> I compiled and run a C++ "hello world" program using gcc/cygwin
> under windows 95 using all the defaults, and although it
> works fine I am surprised to find the executable is nearly half a
> megabyte in size. (462404 bytes, to be precise.)
> Why is this? Is there any way I can reduce the size to something
> more reasonable?
>
> Many thanks
>
> Richard Kaye
>
> #include <iostream>
>
> int main () {
> cout << "Hello World\n";
> return 0;
> }
>
> >From Dr Richard W Kaye\\School of Mathematics and Statistics\\
> University of Birmingham\\Edgbaston\\Birmingham\\B15 2TT\\U.K.
> mailto:R.W.Kaye@bham.ac.uk http://www.mat.bham.ac.uk/R.W.Kaye
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>
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