From: aho450s AT nic DOT smsu DOT edu (Tony O'Bryan)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: large executables?
Date: Fri, 18 Apr 1997 22:09:00 GMT
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On Fri, 18 Apr 1997 23:30:39 +1200, Firedawn <djgpp AT wave DOT co DOT nz> wrote:

>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.
>
> This is no help but i have the same problem ??

Try adding -s (make sure it's lowercase!) to the command line, or run strip.exe
on the compiled executable.  Both options remove unneeded symbols from the .EXE
file and will reduce the size of your program, usually dramatically.

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