Re: [Dev-C++] Executable size with stl

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

Hi Chris,

Sounds logical, though no less annoying. Grins. Thank you for the 
clarification.

Kind regards,

Philip Bennefall
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chris Miller" <lor...@gm...>
To: "Philip Bennefall" <ph...@bl...>
Cc: <dev...@li...>
Sent: Sunday, February 07, 2010 8:21 AM
Subject: Re: [Dev-C++] Executable size with stl


> On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 4:17 PM, Philip Bennefall <ph...@bl...> 
> wrote:
>> 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?
>
> IIRC, this is because it has to include the GNU STL implementation
> into the binary, otherwise you'd need to have the applicable DLL's
> installed on the client machine as well as your application
> executable.
>
> I could be wrong, I haven't used DevC++ in a while, but that's what I 
> remember.
>
> HTH.
>
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