Re: [ooc-compiler] Size of executable

[Michael v. A. <Mic...@de...>]

Frank Hrebabetzky <fh...@ph...> writes:

> Finally I get my programs compiled and running and my work done. So my
> attention is attracted by less important aspects now (no more need to
> respond within impressive 50 min.).
> 
> I compiled 'Hello world' on Win32/MinGW and got an executable of 1.3
> MByte. Option --no-rtc had no influence. I am somewhat lost with 10
> lines of gcc options scrolling up upon 'oo2c -Mv hello.Mod'. What is
> happening? Everything being linked statically and the programs would
> run on PCs without MinGW and oo2c? How could I reduce the size?

There are two primary techniques to reduce the size of a binary:
putting library modules into a shared library and linking the
executable dynamically against it, and removing debug information from
the executable.  I don't have any idea how the former can be achieved
under Windows.  As for the latter, running "strip" on the binary file
may do the trick.  Using "--no-rtc" may also help, but for this the
program code in question needs to be complex enough to do any run-time
checks.

-- mva