From: <no DOT spam AT delorie DOT com>whatfor AT mindspring DOT com (Jon DeMarks)
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Subject: Re: HUGE execs
Date: Thu, 04 Nov 99 17:14:40 GMT
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In article <381346b7 DOT 4921492 AT news DOT gte DOT net>, DELCAPSnews-reply AT pineight DOT 8mSOFTWARE DOT com wrote:
>On Fri, 22 Oct 1999 10:07:24 +0000 (GMT), "Wynand Van Staden"
><s9800973 AT student DOT rau DOT ac DOT za> wrote:
>
>> there is something under the faq answering your question.....
>> yes, there is a commandline option that removes debugging info from the exe
> file
>> making it a lot smaller, this you'll do typically when you've finished
> debugging, and the proggy your compiling is the final release.
>> 
>> hope this helps...
>
>To make it smaller, remove debugging info AND pack your program: UPX.
>http://wildsau.idv.uni-linz.ac.at/mfx/upx.html

you can compile using :
gcc -s prog.c -o prog.exe

and then use djp to make it even smaller.