From:	Jason Green <news AT jgreen4 DOT fsnet DOT co DOT uk>
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Subject:	Re: EXE file size
Date:	Thu, 05 Oct 2000 00:02:39 +0100
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"David Grant" <dgrant79 AT hotmail DOT com> wrote:

> How can I make my EXE files smaller.  I just made a Hello World program and
> it is like 200,000 bytes!

Section 8.14 of the FAQ answers this.

> Then I compile it by typing: "gxx test.cpp -o test.exe"
> 
> I tried using gcc instead, but it didn't like my cout statement for some
> reason.  

That's because by default it does not link with the C++ std library.

> How can I do a printf instead?  It didn't seem to like that either.

printf("hello world!");  and change <iostream> to <cstdio>.

Incidently, if you do this then gcc will work because you are not
making any calls to the C++ std library.

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