Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Message-ID: From: Luke Liu To: cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Subject: newbie: Why Cygwin/Egcs compiled executable is so bloated Date: Fri, 19 Nov 1999 18:57:48 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2448.0) Content-Type: text/plain I understand that it is not as easy to work with dll with cygwin as with Visual C++ or Borland C++. However, when I compiled the Hello world program generated by Visual C++ 6.0 wizard with Cygwin B20.1, the executable was 530KB, meanwhile the mingw32 build was 315KB. Then I got the egcs2.95.2 and after renaming old lib for mingw32 by watching the gcc include/lib search path, I was able to reduce the executable of hello.exe with mingw32 to 173KB. The size with Cygwin remains > 500KB. The compiler switch I used were gcc -Os -mwindows -v -mno-cygwin -e _mainCRTStartup and gcc -Os -mwindows -v -e _mainCRTStartup respectively. Am I simply didn't enable the correct gcc switch? BTW, the VC++6.0 compiled debug executable is 157KB and the released version should be much smaller. Thanks, Luke P.S. I found that due to some screwed security of something, I cannot post to the solutioncentral from company. :-((( -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com