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

[William R Pentney <pentney cse Buffalo EDU>]

On Thu, 17 Jun 1999, Jason Stokes wrote:

Wow, what a difference! I thought it might be related to that, but I had
no idea the debugging symbols took up so much space. Thanks to all who
replied.

- thanks, Bill

> > 
> > 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?
> 
> *My* hello world compiled to 138948 bytes.  But if you "strip" the binary, 
> removing all debugging symbols, it gets knocked down to a sensational 4960 
> bytes, which should be more than enough of a reduction, I trust?  To reduce 
> executable sizes, use -02 and other optimisations, and strip the binary 
> afterwards.
> 
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