Re: [Mingw-users] compile libtiff problem

[Luke D. <cod...@ho...>]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Yili Zhao" <yl...@vi...>
To: "min...@li..." <min...@li...>
Sent: Saturday, April 03, 2004 8:40 AM
Subject: [Mingw-users] compile libtiff problem


> Hi,
>   I use mingw and msys to compile libtiff v3.5.7.
>   #./configure
>   $make
>   However, the output size of libtiff.a is 12,965 KB! I have also compiled
wxwidgets, and because wxwidgets has builtin libtiff, and the output size of
libtiff.a is only 286 KB.
>   I also compile libz, libjpeg and libpng, and the output size are also
small.
>
> Yili

Probably the large libtiff has debugging information (compiled with -g) but
the others don't. Import libraries are also smaller, so if built as a DLL
the wxwidgets version may appear smaller.

Luke