[Mingw-users] Re: Is there any way how to shrink executable size?

[Stephan T. L. <st...@ca...>]

[Miroslav Fidler]
> Statically linked application using MSC compiler is 1.9MB. Using
> gcc/mingw, I get 3.7MB app.
> I am almost sure that problem is that mingw/ld does not eliminates unused
> functions.

No.

Compile with -s and then run upx --best.  See http://upx.sourceforge.net

Stephan T. Lavavej
http://nuwen.net