From: quacci AT vera DOT com (jon)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: large executables?
Date: Mon, 14 Apr 1997 16:27:41 GMT
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On Sun, 13 Apr 1997 22:19:11 -0400, bacon12 AT ix DOT netcom DOT com wrote:

>I have Rhide and when I compile a simple program like ex1.c of
>Allegro's examples I get an executable size of 257KB.  The ex1.exe in
>my examples folder is 138KB.  I don't understand why the one I compiled
>is almost twice as big as the one in my example folder.

I'm no pro at these things, but you might want to look in to these two
binary utilities (line prompt commands) you can choose to download
with DJGPP. They might be what you are looking for.

          strip (on your object file)
          stubify (on the file strip makes)