http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=43601
--- Comment #62 from PcX <xunxun1982 at gmail dot com> 2011-04-21 01:28:02 UTC --- (In reply to comment #61) > (In reply to comment #59) > > > I review the patch, and found that we can add "-fno-keep-inline-dllexport" > > to > > the compiler option, and then, the compiler and linker stage works well. But > > the wxWidgets release mono dll's size is so large.(about 17M) > > In newer versions of GCC there is also a lot more debug info and Dwarf-2 > exception table data that didn't used to be there. Stripping the dll and/or > building a compiler with SJLJ rather than dwarf exceptions might help, > although > SJLJ trades off executable size for slower runtime. (Badly; dwarf exceptions > only take CPU time when one is actually thrown, whereas SJLJ exceptions take > CPU time every time you enter or exit a try block. Since exceptions are meant > to be exceptional conditions that only happen occasionally, this tradeoff is > probably worthwhile on desktop platforms where memory is not in short supply, > but SJLJ might still be better on embedded platforms where memory is so > critical that slower runtime performance might be the preferable option.) I know that, but I have stripped the dll... With dw2 gcc, mingw gcc4.5.2 can produce the 6M wx release dll (after strip).
