From: zidharta AT geocities DOT com Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: How to install Djgpp Date: Fri, 30 Jul 1999 00:09:27 GMT Organization: Deja.com - Share what you know. Learn what you don't. Lines: 48 Message-ID: <7nqqfh$ebd$1@nnrp1.deja.com> References: <933121566 AT p20 DOT f44 DOT n478 DOT z2 DOT FidoNet DOT ftn> NNTP-Posting-Host: 202.49.198.2 X-Article-Creation-Date: Fri Jul 30 00:09:27 1999 GMT X-Http-User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 4.01; Windows 98) X-Http-Proxy: 1.0 x38.deja.com:80 (Squid/1.1.22) for client 202.49.198.2 X-MyDeja-Info: XMYDJUIDsidxidzid To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com So strip.exe will compressed exe file is it also work with other file than hello.exe ?? heap thanks in advance dave In article , "DeHackEd" wrote: > > Hello, how do You do, All? > > > > I'd install minimum of files required and it's work, small ;( > > when I compile such: > > gcc hello.c > > > > it's compiles, but creates 2 files: a.out & a.exe with size about 105 KB > > How compile, that compile creates file 'hello.exe' but no any 'a.exe' > > That "a.exe" file IS your hello.exe. You didn't specify a filename, so it > used "a", and a.out is the same thing except DOS can't execute (2 k > difference). 99% of the time deleting a.out is ok. > > To specify an output file, add the following to your command-line: -o > hello.exe > > That's a hyphen oh (the small letter), and that specifies the output file. > This command-line option works with (almost) every other utility DJGPP comes > with that makes output files. > > If you want to make the EXE smaller, search the newsgroup for something > called "UPX", an EXE compressor that can bring "Hello world" to below 20k. > Or just run "strip hello.exe" > > -- > DeHackEd > No emails please, the address is fake. > > Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ Share what you know. Learn what you don't.