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Date: Fri, 05 Nov 2004 12:54:37 +0100
From: Manuel Collado <m DOT collado AT aaron DOT ls DOT fi DOT upm DOT es>
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Subject: Reducing size of executables in binary distributions
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Is there a recommended practice for reducing the size of executables in 
binary distributions of utilities compiled with DJGPP?

I'm aware of 'strip', but it does a small size reduction, and seems not 
to be generally applied in DJGPP binary packages. There is also UPX, but 
i've never used it. And yes, I've read the FAQ, but what I'm asking here 
is not what can be done, but what the DJGPP porters usually do.

I've checked 'gawk' by rebuilding myself from sources. The sizes in 
bytes, for version 3.1.1, are:

294.912  gawk.exe from gwk311b.zip
324.608  gawk.exe compiled from gwk311s.zip

Applying 'strip' gives 292.864 and 322.560 bytes, respectively.

Perhaps the difference in sizes is due to different compiler/library 
versions. In my system, pakke -qa reports:
...
binutils 2.14 (binaries)
djdev 2.03 (binaries)
gcc 3.3.3 (binaries)
...

Any suggestions? Thanks,
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