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Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2003 20:22:42 -0500 (EST)
From: Jude DaShiell <jdashiel AT shellworld DOT net>
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Subject: Re: DJGPP doesn't support Dynamic Linking :(
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You don't have mlp-xxx.zip on your machine yet.  Using that is one way to
minimize djgpp executables.



On Wed, 5 Nov 2003, Chris Mantoulidis wrote:

> I read the DJGPP does not support Dynamic Linking... Altough I read
> DJGPP is for does DOS Extenstion (or something)... Shouldn't it have
> Dynamic Linking? I see DJGPP compiled executable files being huge
> compared to Borland C++ compiled ones (for example)...
>
>   Yeah, why is that exactly? Does anyone know? I compiled (and linked)
> a hello world program... Borland C++ 3.1 produced a 20KB exe file...
> DJGPP 2.03 produced a 230KB exe file... Why!?!?
>