From:	"Johan Venter" <jventer AT writeme DOT com>
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Subject:	Re: Why are my c++ .exe's so large
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Katy <kcdixon AT hotbot DOT com> wrote in message
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> For example a simple "Hello World" exe, is ~ 268,000 KB.

Um, I think you mean 268,000 bytes :-)

> I use the following commands to compile the hello.cpp
> gpp -c -o hello.o hello.cpp
> gpp -o hello.exe hello.o
>
> How can I make my exe's smaller, is there a switch that I can use to
> do this.

Yes, use the -s option. This will strip all the debugging information from the
executable. If you start developing something however, always compile with -g
and no -s to make as much debug info as possible so you can debug it. Use -s for
final exe.

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