• Andreas Kochenburger (3/3) Feb 08 2007 Probably an old newbie question:
• =?ISO-8859-15?Q?Jari-Matti_M=E4kel=E4?= (4/7) Feb 08 2007 On Linux you can use strip to reduce the size of gdc/dmd generated
• BCS (5/9) Feb 08 2007 IIRC the problem is that DMD/phobos uses static linking for just about e...
• Derek Parnell (9/12) Feb 08 2007 For Windows systems, I use UPX. The binary distribution file of Bud has
• Howard Berkey (3/6) Feb 09 2007 I'd be surprised if "strip" itself didn't work, as it depends on binary ...

Andreas Kochenburger <akk nospam.org> writes:

Probably an old newbie question:
How can I reduce exe sizes? Is there a strip program like for gcc?
As I haven't tried gdc, how small could I get for a simple "hello world"?

=?ISO-8859-15?Q?Jari-Matti_M=E4kel=E4?= <jmjmak utu.fi.invalid> writes:

Andreas Kochenburger kirjoitti:
 Probably an old newbie question:
 How can I reduce exe sizes? Is there a strip program like for gcc?
 As I haven't tried gdc, how small could I get for a simple "hello world"?

On Linux you can use strip to reduce the size of gdc/dmd generated
binaries. If they are still too big, there's always executable packers,
such as upx. I guess there are similar programs on Windows.

BCS <ao pathlink.com> writes:

Reply to Andreas,

 Probably an old newbie question:
 How can I reduce exe sizes? Is there a strip program like for gcc?
 As I haven't tried gdc, how small could I get for a simple "hello
 world"?

IIRC the problem is that DMD/phobos uses static linking for just about
everything. 
So if you use writef you pull in huge amounts of stuff, same for just about 
everything else. It's a fixable problem but not one I know how to fix.

I seem to remember that someone built tango into a .so but I could be wrong

Derek Parnell <derek nomail.afraid.org> writes:

On Thu, 08 Feb 2007 19:01:36 +0100, Andreas Kochenburger wrote:

 Probably an old newbie question:
 How can I reduce exe sizes? Is there a strip program like for gcc?
 As I haven't tried gdc, how small could I get for a simple "hello world"?

For Windows systems, I use UPX. The binary distribution file of Bud has
been packed with UPX and it is very effective.

-- 
Derek
(skype: derek.j.parnell)
Melbourne, Australia
"Justice for David Hicks!"
9/02/2007 10:35:47 AM

Howard Berkey <howard well.com> writes:

Andreas Kochenburger Wrote:

 Probably an old newbie question:
 How can I reduce exe sizes? Is there a strip program like for gcc?
 As I haven't tried gdc, how small could I get for a simple "hello world"?

I'd be surprised if "strip" itself didn't work, as it depends on binary file
format .  

In fact most of the binutils should work fine, no?