Re: Static linking on Windows

[José Alburquerque <jaalburquerque cox net>]

José Alburquerque wrote:
> 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
>   

I forgot to mention, that the strip command is mainly used on 
executables generated from a compile command.  Stripping libraries may 
be bad for debugging later.

-Jose