Weddington, Eric wrote:
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Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2008 6:13 PM
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Subject: [avr-gcc-list] Cygwin GCC build cc1.exe file size
My build of gcc under windows (cygwin) give file size for
cc1.exe of 22MB
Winavr is much smaller (200K).
Is this normal or do I need to strip files?
Yes, it is normal, in that debugging info is normally included in the
executable. Yes, use strip to strip the executable to make it smaller.
BTW, I have posted the patches, on the WinAVR CVS repository, that I use
to build the toolchain using MinGW/MSYS. That way the executables aren't
linked to the Cygwin DLL.
I think I heard somewhere that some of these patches were being included
in the main FSF gcc tree, to make building with MinGW easier - is that
right? I certainly "borrowed" the patches when building a Coldfire gcc
under MinGW - very handy! That's the open source development model at
its finest.
Andrew, aim to build with MinGW if you can. As a general rule, MinGW
executables are smaller and faster than Cygwin programs, but Cygwin
provides greater posix support. Among other things, cygwin has an extra
layer between the application and all file access, allowing it to
simulate things like soft links and unix file permissions - at the cost
of extra time and larger images.
mvh.,
David
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