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Re: reduce size of Cygwin1.dll - How?
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please at cygwin dot com>
- To: The Cygwin-Talk Malingering List <cygwin-talk at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2006 19:48:16 -0500
- Subject: Re: reduce size of Cygwin1.dll - How?
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On Fri, Mar 31, 2006 at 01:03:33PM -0800, bill wrote:
>I know this question has been asked before because I read the posts
>from a google on it. Use strip on it says. But it doesn't work for
>me. What am I doing wrong ?
>
>Or is there another way. I don't use cvs; I use the setup program. Is
>there a way to configure the compile option(s) to keep the debug info
>out of the cygwin1.dll. Mine is currently 1.73 MB. I have seen some
>as small as 460 KB.
1) You're in the wrong mailing list.
2) The cygwin DLL does not have debug information in it. The debugging
information is in a separate file called cygwin1.dbg.