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

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-O2 builds smaller executables than -O3 and -O4.
N.B. - If you want to debug, then you have to remove -s option, since -s 
means strip symbols, which are needed there for debuging. Yeah, you know 
that, I simply warn here..

OROSZI Balázs wrote:

> Damien X wrote:
>
>> Try adding -s to the commands when calling the compiler.  The older 
>> version of Dev-C++ did that by default, making the size of your .exe 
>> files small.
>
>
> And also you might try the -O3 or -O4 flag. Optimization also tends to 
> make the exe file smaller.
> If you are still not satisfied, head on to:
> http://upx.sf.net
> ,the Ultimate Packer for eXecutables homepage. It does it's job very 
> well, even better than commercial exe packers.
> Copy upx.exe into your path somewhere (so you can use it anywhere), 
> then use "upx -9 <filename>" for best compression.
>
> Your program, that was 416 KB, after stripping (-s) and upx-ing, was 
> reduced to 73 KB.
>
> -- 
> Greetings,
>   Balázs
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