Re: Static linking on Windows

[José Alburquerque <jaalburquerque cox net>]

Bruce Sherwood wrote:
> In fact, Robert Pearce pointed me to Dependency Walker (I had failed to 
> ask the right question of Google to find it myself), and it did a great 
> job of identifying everything. In fact, I passed it a .pyd file and it 
> happily analyzed it. Thanks to both of you for pointing me to this.
>
> There remains pending for me the fact that using gtkmm instead of 
> Windows-specific windowing code increases my binary from 4 MB to 40 MB. 
> It was suggested that one can strip the dll's, but I don't know how to 
> do that. I installed gtkmm etc. from Windows binary downloads.
>
> Bruce Sherwood
>
>   
On Unix systems, the 'strip' command does what you're asking about, but 
I'm not sure that there is a similar command on Windows.  It should be 
available through MinGW though (try 'man strip' at the command line).

-Jose