Re: Static linking on Windows; font problems

[Bruce Sherwood <Bruce_Sherwood ncsu edu>]

Thanks. Stripping most of the dll's for my Windows application brought 
the module size from 42 MB down to 18 MB (a lot worse than 4 MB, but 
still...)

My next problem is with fonts. I get an error message "No fonts found" 
and an invitation to edit /etc/fonts/fonts.conf. I tried 
<dir>c:\WINDOWS\Fonts</dir> (Windows syntax) and 
<dir>/c/WINDOWS/Fonts</dir> (Msys syntax) to no avail. Is there someone 
on this list who has built Windows applications who can give me a clue 
what the issue is? Thanks.

Bruce Sherwood

José Alburquerque wrote:
> 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