Mail Archives: djgpp/2007/03/27/00:10:53
Gordon DOT Schumacher AT seagate DOT com kirjoitti:
> rugxulo AT gmail DOT com wrote on 24 Mar 2007 21:41:31 -0700:
>
> # > Why is BinUtils 2.17 so much bigger in .EXE size than 2.16.1?? I'm not
> # > trying to be a pedant, I'm just curious why it's 5x the size of the
> # > previous version (15 MB vs. 3 MB). Any obvious reason anyone know of?
> #
> # Well, AFAIK, it's still got symbolic debug info in every .EXE (the
> # smallest is READELF.EXE at 588,307 bytes, which is still bigger than
> # any .EXE in 2.16.1). Running 'strip *.exe' seems to shrink them down
> # to almost the same as 2.16.1's total.
>
> D'oh! :-S
> Sorry 'bout that, I even noticed the increase but as usual was trying to
> do too many things at once...
>
> # Gordon, maybe you should repackage / reupload the BNU217B.ZIP since I
> # don't think most users will be debugging these, and it'll spare
> # everyone's bandwidth in the long run.
Additionally You may decide compress them with UPX
(http://upx.sourceforge.net).
UPX versions 1.2-X had problems with DJGPP, but that is no more so for
2.0.X.
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