Re: size of gnome-apps

[Ronald de Man <deman win tue nl>]

On Thu, Sep 16, 1999 at 10:49:39AM +0200, Andrea Bosio wrote:
> 
> Hi.
> 
> I have a near-off topic question.
> 
> Why my gnome programs are so big?!
> 
> I mean... this program:
> 
> main () { g_print("Hello world\n"); }
> 
> Takes up 1200kb bytes stripped. Why?!

My guess is that you're linking your program statically.
What operating system do you use? Assuming that your binary is
called 'hello', what does

$ ldd hello

give as output?

Ronald