Date: Sun, 6 Feb 2000 07:49:49 +0600 (LKT)
From: Kalum Somaratna aka Grendel <kalum AT newmail DOT net>
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Subject: Re: Customizing Allegro
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On Sat, 5 Feb 2000, Damian Yerrick wrote:

> 
> 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.
> 

The allegro.txt file (in your /allegro directory) has a section called
"reducing your executable size". It contains quite a lot of info about how
to do this so IMHO this would be a good place to look at.


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