Re: [Mingw-w64-public] recipes for automated 32bit mingw build?

[NightStrike <nig...@gm...>]

On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 3:36 PM, Jon <jon...@gm...> wrote:
> 1) Strip -s on all exes. I maintain a build recipe at https://github.com/oneclick/rubyinstaller which aggregates MSys and the latest mingw-w32-1.0-bin_i686-mingw_* download into what we call the DevKit. Currently this explodes to ~758MB on-disk. After stripping just the mingw-w64 exes using something similar to the following, the on-disk size shrinks to ~328MB.
>
>  for /r mingw %F in (*.exe) do strip -s %F

This is what the install-strip make target is for.  Don't do it
manually.  Just call make install-strip instead of make install.

> 2) Add prefix-stripped (eg - gcc) exes to the download to accompany the prefixed (eg - i686-w64-mingw32-gcc) exes.

Why?

> 3) Compress the final download using LZMA2 to a *.7z similar to what Ruben provides. Given the robustness and availability of the 7-Zip project, I don't believe there's a good reason to stick with zip's for Windows users.

zip on windows is available without any 3rd party utilities.  Any
windows user can extract a zip, and zip is understood everwhere to be
a windows archive.  I see no reason to change that just to gain a few
megs off an archive.  The bigger issue, and the one we should
concentrate on, is the duplicated lib directory.