From: Eyal Ben-David <eyal DOT ben-david AT aks DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Am I retarded -or- Why is my exe size so big?!?
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1998 19:55:21 +0300
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Ron Penton wrote:
> 
> I'm using djgpp 2.whatever and allegro 3.0. I know that allegro has a large
> overhead, but that overhead was supposed to be the same no matter how big
> the the program got. I've been programming a game for a few months and all I
> have is the interface and redraw functions, yet my exe size is 4.6 MEGS!!
> Yikes!!! I tried undeclaring allegro stuff, but nothing happened. The only
> gcc flag I'm using is -g. Can anyone help me please?

You compiled with debugging.

You can strip all debugging info:   strip --strip-all file.exe

Eyal.