Re: shrink GTK+ disk usage for Windows

[Andrew Ziem <ahz001 gmail com>]

On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 2:34 PM,  <jcupitt gmail com> wrote:
> On 31 March 2010 17:59, Andrew Ziem <ahz001 gmail com> wrote:
>>> It's probably possible to shrink that a bit more, perhaps by stripping
>>> symbols from the files more aggressively.
>>
>> Wow, using Linux 'strip -v bin/*' cuts the bin directory from 16M to
>> 9.3M!  After UPX, it's down to 3.9M (compare to 7.8MB below).
>
> Good stuff. I think you need to be a bit careful with strip, it's
> possible to break linking if you take too much off (I seem to remember
> breaking it at some point anyway). Test carefully!

I hadn't tested yet when I wrote that :).  Now I see that stripping
almost anything (except freetype6.dll) causes the app to not start.