Re: [Dev-C++] GCC 3.2 (MinGW 2.0) Compiled File Sizes

[Daniel K. O. <dan...@ya...>]

Marc Heiligers wrote:

> So does anyone know of a way to reduce the file sizes generated by GCC 3.2?


Try:

Switches: -s -Os

And:
strip -s <exename>
upx -9 <exename>


("strip.exe" should be on your mingw bin dir, and UPX you can find on 
SourceForge)

I have them both on my Tools menu.
The C++ hello world now is 71.5 KB :)


g++ is not toooo bloated, I compiled some big (well... not toooo big, 
but bigger than a hello world... 15~20K lines :P ) projetcts, and the 
size (with -O2 switch, and no strip/upx) is usually less than 100 KB 
bigger than the binaries compiled with VC++ (dunno what version). It 
seems acceptable to me. :)




Daniel K. O.