On Wed, 3 Mar 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> From: "Michael Van Canneyt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [fpc-pascal]Can't seem to cycle a new > Date sent: Wed, 3 Mar 2004 09:10:36 +0100 > > > > > .. I'll drop back to the 1.0.10. > > > > > > Installed 1.0.10 and it built everything just hunky > > > dory. > > > > > > Now I have a question about the size of the exe. > > > > > > After it is built the size is 1.3 meg. > > > > > > I tried to run stripw on it but it doesn't reduce it > > > at all. Did the > > > file really jump to that size or am I just being > > > stupid and not using > > > stripw correctly. > > > > > > stripw ppc386.exe > > > > The make procedure runs UPX on it, so I would be > > surprised if stripw > > could do some more packing after that :-) > > 1.3 MB is the size of the executable _without_ compressing with > UPX. This IMHO means that either UPX wasn't found (this could be > checked in make output probably), or the chosen make target > doesn't do the compression at all (I don't know whether there are > such targets for Win32, but it's possible). Mmmyes. I did some cheking: the UPX is used only when doing a 'make install' The executable is then about 800K on my machine. Maybe the -Xs option is used to strip unused symbols? It could be that this option is left in some config file ? Michael. _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
