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From:	"prashant_tr" <prashant_tr AT mantraonline DOT com>
To:	"Raul Carolus" <carolura AT luther DOT edu>
Cc:	<djgpp AT delorie DOT com>
Subject:	Re: Exe size help
Date:	Thu, 18 Nov 1999 20:27:53 +0530
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-----Original Message-----
From: Stefan Viljoen <rylan AT intekom DOT com>


>
>Raul Carolus <carolura AT luther DOT edu> wrote in message
>news:80ttnd$qu3$1 AT news08 DOT btx DOT dtag DOT de...
>> 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)?


You can use strip --strip-all foo.exe. If you're still not happy, use DJP as
mentioned above.

You can get DJP from
ftp://ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/gnu/djgpp/v2misc/mlp107b.zip

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Prashant TR

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