[Mingw-users] Re: Slow g77 based executable start-up in Windows-Me/XP

[Marcel C. <mar...@ho...>]

"Marcel Cox" <mar...@ho...> wrote in message
news:b1b0dm$oel$1...@ma......
> - Did you compare the sizes of your EXE files both for the DOS and the
Win32
> versions of your program? Maybe the slowdown is based on a huge EXE file
> size. Mingw includes some debugging information by default, and you can
> reduce the size of the EXE file by adding the option -s when compiling, or
> by using the STIP.EXE tool on the resulting EXE file.

That should be STRIP.EXE of course.

Marcel