[Dev-C++] Executable size with stl

[Philip B. <ph...@bl...>]

Hi all,

I noticed that when using MinGw and the stl (e.g. iostream, string, vector etc) the executable gets ridiculously large - sometimes over 1 mb! My project settings are set to the "Optimize More" option, no debugging or profiling information is generated, and the executable is set to be stripped. Yet, we get these huge files and it simply does not seem logical. Is there any way to reduce this? Perhaps if I could find an alternate implementation of the stl somewhere?

Kind regards,

Philip Bennefall