Re: [Mingw-users] Updated - mingw-runtime-2.0

[Earnie B. <ear...@ya...>]

Thanks, Luke.  How does 176K sound?  Failed to set CFLAGS to strip.

Earnie.

Luke Dunstan wrote:
> 
> I noticed that mingw-runtime binary tar.gz has jumped from about 160K to
> 950K due to the objects (*crt*.o) and static libraries (e.g. libmingw32.a)
> being compiled with debugging information. If this is intentional then
> people need to be warned to avoid complaints about increased executable size
> (as many users probably don't link with -s).
> 
> Luke Dunstan
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Earnie Boyd" <ear...@ya...>
> To: "Earnie Boyd" <Min...@li...>
> Sent: Saturday, June 15, 2002 11:04 PM
> Subject: Re: [Mingw-users] Updated - mingw-runtime-2.0
> 
> > And now for the attached changes.
> >
> > Earnie Boyd wrote:
> > >
> > > I've made an official release of mingw-runtime-2.0.  The changes are
> > > attached.
> > >
> > > PLEASE READ:
> > > The changes include extensions to the runtime supplied by MSVCRT.DLL
> > > in a static lib called libmingwex.a. These extensions include some C89
> > > and C99 wide character functions, floating point environment functions
> > > (declared in fenv.h), floating point classification functions and
> > > macros, the inttypes.h format conversion macros, stubs for some
> > > MSVCRT.DLL underscored functions that are now part of C99 std, and a
> > > replacement for fseek and fwrite that are safer on W9x.
> > >
> > > It also contains the POSIX dirent functions, which have been removed
> > > from libmingw.a and added to libmingwex.a.
> > >
> > > The ISO C extensions are visible by default. To remove them, define
> > > __NO_ISOCEXT
> > >
> > > To use these functions, you will need to explicitly add -lmingwex to
> > > your command line. In future releases of GCC, libmingwex.a will
> > > become a system lib added automatically by specs.
> > >
> > > We owe our thanks to Danny Smith.
> > >
> > > Earnie.
> > >
> 
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