Re: Downloaded Bloodshed devcpp, compiled the Hello example but the
exe is half a megabyte!?
On 2007-10-30 02:56, Dave -Turner wrote:
Ok well, I asked at the Bloodshed forum as suggested and although this issue
has been discussed somewhat there doesn't seem to be any apparent solution
to it other than 1) make sure debugging info isnt being included, and 2)
make sure Strip Executable in compiler options is turned on.
That managed to get the exe down to 263kb, but that's seemingly as small as
it'll get, so that forum seemed somewhat useless. I can make the same exe
using lcc in around 3kb.
Just a though, might it be that the compiler you are using with
Bloodshed is unable to produce a smaller executable? All compilers are
not equal when it comes to generating code, so produces small code some
produces large, some fast, and some slow.
But because I can't talk about DevCpp here I guess this newsgroup is equally
useless to ask for help. Perhaps you should rename it to something more
suitable, I can think of a few suggestions.
This groups is very aptly named, it is not comp.lang.c++ compilers, or
comp.lang.c++.bloodshed, it is just comp.lang.c++ which reflects quite
well what we discuss here. Let us take a quick look at the components
for a while. The "comp" tells us that what is discussed is related to
computers in some why, the "lang" means that we discuss a computer
language, and the "c++" means that it is the c++ computer language we
are discussing. Had it been comp.c++ compilers might have been on topic
but that is not the case so they are not.
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Erik Wikstr??m