Re: [gtk-list] Regarding GTK+ program size ...

[Stefan Ondrejicka <ondrej idata sk>]

On Wed, 16 Jun 1999, William R Pentney wrote:

Hello,

>  I am new to GTK+, and while I find it very useful, it seems to result in
> some compiled binaries of ridiculous size. The "Hello World" example in
> the GTK+ tutorial, for example, comes out to about 300K when I compile it.
> Is there any way to reduce the mammoth size of GTK+ compiled binaries?

That are debug symbols inside your binary. You may remove them with
strip command.

strip heloworld

that will decrease the size of executables.

Regards,
Stevo.

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Stefan Ondrejicka <ondrej@idata.sk>
http://www.idata.sk/~ondrej/