From: Jon <jon...@gm...> - 2011-08-05 19:36:47
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Where's the source for this automated build recipe? I'd like to look it over to determine if I've got enough time to work up patch series for your review that does the following: 1) Strip -s on all exes. I maintain a build recipe at https://github.com/oneclick/rubyinstaller which aggregates MSys and the latest mingw-w32-1.0-bin_i686-mingw_* download into what we call the DevKit. Currently this explodes to ~758MB on-disk. After stripping just the mingw-w64 exes using something similar to the following, the on-disk size shrinks to ~328MB. for /r mingw %F in (*.exe) do strip -s %F 2) Add prefix-stripped (eg - gcc) exes to the download to accompany the prefixed (eg - i686-w64-mingw32-gcc) exes. 3) Compress the final download using LZMA2 to a *.7z similar to what Ruben provides. Given the robustness and availability of the 7-Zip project, I don't believe there's a good reason to stick with zip's for Windows users. I'd like to scope the level of effort needed to do this if these mods would be welcome and value-add. Jon --- blog: http://jonforums.github.com/ twitter: @jonforums "Anyone who can only think of one way to spell a word obviously lacks imagination." - Mark Twain |