Re: [Mingw-users] Question about generated executables sizes ondifferent hosts

[Eli Z. <el...@gn...>]

> Date: Thu, 07 Nov 2013 08:10:30 +0100 (CET)
> From: Mauro Salvini <mau...@sm...>
> 
> >>> No, I didn't any strip. But after stripping I got a 93Kb executable with MinGW on Linux and a 166Kb executable with MinGW on Windows. 
> >> It's possible that on Windows, GCC pulls much more code from libgcc. 
> >> 
> >> Also, the object formats are different (pe-coff vs elf), so this 
> >> comparison might not be meaningful even after stripping. 
> >> 
> > Can the OP clarify here: Does "MinGW on Linux" mean a cross-compiler, or 
> > the Linux-native compiler that Eli's comment about PE-COFF vs. ELF above 
> > implies? (I took it to mean a cross-compiler.) 
> 
> 
> Yes, " MinGW on Linux" means a cross-compiler, sorry for misunderstanding. 

Then it's my misunderstanding, sorry.

In that case, you may wish comparing the output of objdump, and
perhaps doing that also on individual *.o files (to see if the
difference is due to different code that was generated from your
sources, or something else).