Re: [Mingw-users] Size difference between native and cross compiled binaries with mingw32

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

Bas Mevissen wrote:

>On Sat, 2004-07-17 at 21:56, Heiko Gerdau wrote:
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>>Maybe the exe is striped on windows per default and is not using the cross 
>>compiler. Try strip (or option -s) on the cross compiled exe, it should be 
>>the same small size.
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>Thanks Heiko! That did the trick. Now it is around 10k (from 300+). 
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>But now the next question: why is the behaviour of the cross-compile
>version different and, more important, how to let the cross one do this
>by default like the native one.
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The difference is likely due to the libraries are stripped for native 
and are not for the cross-compile.  So rebuild your libraries with -s 
instead of -g.  This is easily done like so.

ccflags='-O2 -s'

make CFLAGS="$ccflags" CXXFLAGS="$ccflags"

Earnie

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