From: Nicolas Blais <alphaqt AT phreaker DOT net>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: The size of .exe
Date: Wed, 04 Nov 1998 07:41:25 -0500
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Compiling with -s strips all the debug information, so you save about
60% of the exe file size.  After, download DJP from the MLP distribution
on Simtel (where you got DJGPP).  Use it to compress you exes by 50% or
more.
So a 700k file ends up being 200K and then 100K.

Nicolas Blais

Roland Bengtsson wrote:
> 
> Why is the exe-file so big when compile with DJGPP an how can I shrink
> it? I have no special options when compiling.
> 
> /Roland