Building Cygwin

[Brian Dessent]

"Jerry D. Hedden" wrote:

> I downloaded the source for cygwin-1.5.19-4, and successfully compiled
> it using:
> 
>     ./configure
>     make

You really should do a VPATH build as instructed in
<http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.programming.html#faq.programming.building-cygwin>.

> What settings do I need to use to get the binaries to be the same
> (small) size?

The size is due to the debug information.  It does not affect the memory
usage or speed of execution.  To get rid of it, set CFLAGS appropriately
or use strip.

Brian

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