Re: How can I put together a small bare bones "Emacs for scripting" package?

[Mathias Dahl <mathias.dahl@gmail.com>]

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>
> > One thing that I noticed is the HUGE difference in size of the exe file
> between Emacs 24 and later versions. I
> > listed the sizes of the folder when I keep my different Emacs versions:
> >
> > 8.8M    ./emacs-24.5-official/bin/emacs.exe
> > 91M     ./emacs-25.1-2-x86_64-w64-mingw32_2016_11_16/bin/emacs.exe
> > 119M    ./emacs-26.1-x86_64/bin/emacs.exe
> > 120M    ./emacs-26.2-x86_64/bin/emacs.exe
> > 130M    ./emacs-26.3-x86_64/bin/emacs.exe
> > 16M     ./emacs-bin-w64-24.4/emacs/bin/emacs.exe
> > 121M    ./emax64-bin-20180529/emax64/bin/emacs.exe
> > 119M    ./old/emacs-26.1/bin/emacs.exe
>
> The small ones are stripped, the large ones are with debug info.  If
> you have the 'strip' command (from Binutils) installed, you can strip
> the large ones as well.
>

Ah, makes sense.

I tried three different versions of MingW and binutils/strip until I found
one that did not fail :)

Now I have an emacs.exe (emacs-26.3-x86_64-no-deps, from the official Gnu
download location) that is 30 MB in size instead of 132 MB :) And, it still
seems
to work.

Thanks a lot!

/Mathias

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