From: eplmst AT lu DOT erisoft DOT se (Martin Stromberg) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: Why are my c++ .exe's so large Date: 22 Oct 1999 12:39:00 GMT Organization: Ericsson Erisoft AB, Sweden Lines: 20 Message-ID: <7uplt4$1pc$3@antares.lu.erisoft.se> References: <380fd475 DOT 6115722 AT news3 DOT newscene DOT com> <38103DF7 DOT 7BF3176D AT ciam DOT ru> NNTP-Posting-Host: propus-144.lu.erisoft.se X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Yury Fedorchenko (y_fedor AT ciam DOT ru) wrote: : Katy wrote: : > For example a simple "Hello World" exe, is ~ 268,000 KB. : > I use the following commands to compile the hello.cpp : > gpp -c -o hello.o hello.cpp : > gpp -o hello.exe hello.o : It's easy : use -s options !!! And don't forget the use optimisation too ("-O2"), which will make a lot of difference compared with _no_ optimisation. Lastly read the documentation ("info gcc") and the FAQ ("info faq"). U2, Boy, MartinS