• Mars (6/6) Feb 21 2012 Hello everybody.
• Andrea Fontana (2/10) Feb 21 2012
• Mars (3/4) Feb 21 2012 Down to 1 MB, a good start, thanks. I guess that's more bearable.
• Andrea Fontana (2/7) Feb 22 2012
• Trass3r (5/5) Feb 21 2012 Lots of symbols and stuff.
• Dmitry Olshansky (5/10) Feb 22 2012 I recall debug builds with MinGW GCC on windows are also enormous. Try

"Mars" <- -.-> writes:

Hello everybody.

Today I've tested GDC (on Windows), and a simple Hello World 
program results in a 5 MB exe file, while it's only about 200 KB 
with DMD. Is this normal? What does GDC (GCC?) put in there, to 
make it so big, and why?

Mars

Andrea Fontana <advmail katamail.com> writes:

Have you tried to strip executable using --strip or --strip-all?



Il giorno mar, 21/02/2012 alle 13.51 +0100, Mars ha scritto:

 Hello everybody.
=20
 Today I've tested GDC (on Windows), and a simple Hello World=20
 program results in a 5 MB exe file, while it's only about 200 KB=20
 with DMD. Is this normal? What does GDC (GCC?) put in there, to=20
 make it so big, and why?
=20
 Mars

"Mars" <- -.-> writes:

On Tuesday, 21 February 2012 at 13:19:11 UTC, Andrea Fontana 
wrote:
 Have you tried to strip executable using --strip or --strip-all?

Down to 1 MB, a good start, thanks. I guess that's more bearable.

Andrea Fontana <advmail katamail.com> writes:

You can try upx too :)

Il giorno mar, 21/02/2012 alle 16.43 +0100, Mars ha scritto:

 On Tuesday, 21 February 2012 at 13:19:11 UTC, Andrea Fontana=20
 wrote:
 Have you tried to strip executable using --strip or --strip-all?

=20
 Down to 1 MB, a good start, thanks. I guess that's more bearable.

Trass3r <un known.com> writes:

Lots of symbols and stuff.
You can get it down with -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections  
-Wl,-s,--gc-sections
Phobos should also be compiled with -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections to  
get the whole effect though.

Dmitry Olshansky <dmitry.olsh gmail.com> writes:

On 21.02.2012 16:51, Mars wrote:
 Hello everybody.

 Today I've tested GDC (on Windows), and a simple Hello World program
 results in a 5 MB exe file, while it's only about 200 KB with DMD. Is
 this normal? What does GDC (GCC?) put in there, to make it so big, and why?

 Mars

I recall debug builds with MinGW GCC on windows are also enormous. Try 
release vs debug.

-- 
Dmitry Olshansky