Re: [Mingw-users] Generated Binary is BIGGER than VC++ 7 generated binary !!!

[Earnie B. <ea...@us...>]

Perhaps you should GOOGLE. Try a search string of ``mingw size of exe'' 
to see if you can come up with the answer.  I've given it before.  C++ 
runtime is static for GCC and dynamic for VC++.

Earnie.

Miroslav Fidler wrote:
> I agree this is not the most important thing. Anyway, given two same 
> executables doing exactly same thing, but one 4MB long and other 2.5MB, 
> which one would you download and install ?!
>  
> Mirek
> 
>     ----- Original Message -----
>     *From:* Bert Douglas <mailto:be...@be...>
>     *To:* min...@li...
>     <mailto:min...@li...>
>     *Sent:* Monday, December 08, 2003 10:20 AM
>     *Subject:* Re: [Mingw-users] Generated Binary is BIGGER than VC++ 7
>     generated binary !!!
> 
>     How much memory do you have in your computer?  Is this really
>     significant?
> 
>         ----- Original Message -----
>         *From:* Miroslav Fidler <mailto:cx...@nt...>
>         *To:* min...@li...
>         <mailto:min...@li...>
>         *Sent:* Monday, December 08, 2003 3:15 AM
>         *Subject:* Re: [Mingw-users] Generated Binary is BIGGER than
>         VC++ 7 generated binary !!!
> 
>          > Is there a remedy for that?
>          > 160 KB (497 KB vs 340 KB) is really huge!
> 
>             Right now not. LD/Win32 would need to support --gc-sections
>         switch -
>         that would probably solve the problem. Unfortunately, this
>         option seems to
>         be unsupported now.
> 
>         Mirek
> 
> 
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