Re: Static linking on Windows

[Bruce Sherwood <Bruce_Sherwood ncsu edu>]

If these dll's are not stripped, what do I have to do to strip them? I 
installed gtk and gtkmm from the standard binary installers for Windows. 
Do I have to build gtk and gtkmm from source (shudder)? With what flags?

Bruce Sherwood

Murray Cumming wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-11-07 at 12:06 -0500, Bruce Sherwood wrote:
>
> > Thanks. Just for grins I tried the experiment of trying -static and 
> > indeed the build failed miserably.
> >
> > With shared libraries, I seem to need to add all of the dll's listed 
> > below, which increases the length of the Python module (compared to 
> > using Windows-specific code) from 4 MB to 40 MB.
>
>
> I doubt it's that much when stripped. Maybe this includes the debug
> symbols.