CB Compilation

[Simeone]

Hi! How did you use the gcc compiler to make such small wxwidgets dll? Thank you!

[ptDev]

Hi there, I always struggle to keep my wxWidgets binaries small.

For the DLL I distribute for Code::Blocks, I did the following:

• Compile for release with wxDEBUG_LEVEL set to 0 (gets rid of asserts code).
• Once compiled, run strip to remove all remaining embedded debugging symbols information (you'd be surprised).
• Finally, compress the DLL using UPX.

Following these steps, I got the size of a monolithic DLL down from 16MB to about 2,5MB.