Probably an old newbie question:
How can I reduce exe sizes? Is there a strip program like for gcc?
As I haven't tried gdc, how small could I get for a simple "hello world"?

Andreas Kochenburger kirjoitti:
> Probably an old newbie question:
> How can I reduce exe sizes? Is there a strip program like for gcc?
> As I haven't tried gdc, how small could I get for a simple "hello world"?

On Linux you can use strip to reduce the size of gdc/dmd generated binaries. If they are still too big, there's always executable packers, such as upx. I guess there are similar programs on Windows.

Reply to Andreas,

> Probably an old newbie question:
> How can I reduce exe sizes? Is there a strip program like for gcc?
> As I haven't tried gdc, how small could I get for a simple "hello
> world"?

IIRC the problem is that DMD/phobos uses static linking for just about everything. So if you use writef you pull in huge amounts of stuff, same for just about everything else. It's a fixable problem but not one I know how to fix.

I seem to remember that someone built tango into a .so but I could be wrong

On Thu, 08 Feb 2007 19:01:36 +0100, Andreas Kochenburger wrote:

> Probably an old newbie question:
> How can I reduce exe sizes? Is there a strip program like for gcc?
> As I haven't tried gdc, how small could I get for a simple "hello world"?

For Windows systems, I use UPX. The binary distribution file of Bud has been packed with UPX and it is very effective.

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9/02/2007 10:35:47 AM

Andreas Kochenburger Wrote:

> Probably an old newbie question:
> How can I reduce exe sizes? Is there a strip program like for gcc?
> As I haven't tried gdc, how small could I get for a simple "hello world"?

I'd be surprised if "strip" itself didn't work, as it depends on binary file format .

In fact most of the binutils should work fine, no?