From: "Stefan Viljoen" <rylan AT intekom DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Exe size help
Date: Wed, 17 Nov 1999 15:32:48 +0200
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Raul Carolus <carolura AT luther DOT edu> wrote in message
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> Ok, I'm baffled, my exe compiled from C++, using Allegro and the Allegttf
> libraries is well over 1 meg..  Everything I've tried to reduce the size
> (optimizing out the wazoo, no debug, even the stuff in the Allegro
> documnetation didn't help much) has only resulted in a 50k or so
reduction.
>
> What else can I try to get my exe size down?  Thanks.

Have you used the -s command line switch?

Have you tried using DJP or UPX (.EXE file compressors)?


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