From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Emacs 25 size and static linking
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2018 05:41:25 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83k1wq5qje.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <878td68qtv.fsf@robertthorpeconsulting.com> (message from Robert Thorpe on Wed, 10 Jan 2018 01:06:52 +0000)
> From: Robert Thorpe <rt@robertthorpeconsulting.com>
> Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2018 01:06:52 +0000
>
> I use Emacs 25 on MS Windows.
>
> I've noticed that the executable for Emacs 25 is much larger than the
> executable was for Emacs 24. It's nearly 10 times larger.
>
> I presume this is because some libraries have been statically linked
> into Emacs. I expect that means that the MS Windows user doesn't have
> to install those libraries separately?
>
> Is this correct?
No, I think the Emacs 24 binary you were using was stripped. What is
its size, and what is the size of the Emacs 25 binary?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-01-10 3:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-01-10 1:06 Emacs 25 size and static linking Robert Thorpe
2018-01-10 3:41 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2018-01-10 21:21 ` Tomas Nordin
2018-01-11 3:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-01-12 23:48 ` Robert Thorpe
2018-01-13 7:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
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