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Re: I got huge big binaries with Cygwin B20.1


If you use the -s flag during link (strip symbols), you will notice a vast difference.
I have a small program that is 312K using the -g flag, 298K without the -g flag, and exactly 4K with the -s flag.

-- Matthew Brown

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Martin Henne" <Netzmeister@MartinHenne.de>
To: <cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com>
Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2000 10:29 AM
Subject: I got huge big binaries with Cygwin B20.1


> 
> Working with Windows NT 4.0 SP6
> I get giant binaries when I compile
> a C++ source code. I tried a little
> 'HelloWorld!'-Application without
> any GUI just using the iostream.h
> and my binary was about 460 KB big.
> 
> Has anyone the same problems?
> 
> Martin
> 
> mailto:webmaster@martinhenne.de
> 
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