From: Damian Yerrick <MYNAMEISd_yerrick AT hotmail DOT comNO2CANNEDHAM>
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Subject: Re: Customizing Allegro
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On Fri, 04 Feb 2000 15:36:16 GMT, "THORLEIF FAURENG" <thor DOT m AT c2i DOT net>
wrote:

>When i compile a file that uses Allegro, the file get's at least
>about 500kb or something. Is there any way I can leave out the
>functions i don't use in Allegro so that i save some space?

The linker already does most of that for you.
Have you tried stripping the debug symbols and compressing the code?
UPX does both.
  http://upx.tsx.org/
Shrinks the Allegro overhead to about 150 KB or so.

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