From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs 25 size and static linking Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2018 05:41:25 +0200 Message-ID: <83k1wq5qje.fsf@gnu.org> References: <878td68qtv.fsf@robertthorpeconsulting.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1515555611 18249 195.159.176.226 (10 Jan 2018 03:40:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2018 03:40:11 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jan 10 04:40:07 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1eZ7FD-00049R-Q2 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 10 Jan 2018 04:40:03 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40238 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eZ7HC-0004uG-Nm for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 09 Jan 2018 22:42:06 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:45735) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eZ7Gj-0004tl-OK for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Jan 2018 22:41:38 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eZ7Gd-0001ti-OC for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Jan 2018 22:41:35 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:42748) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eZ7Gd-0001ta-Kw for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Jan 2018 22:41:31 -0500 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=1813 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1eZ7Gd-0006UP-3P for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Jan 2018 22:41:31 -0500 In-reply-to: <878td68qtv.fsf@robertthorpeconsulting.com> (message from Robert Thorpe on Wed, 10 Jan 2018 01:06:52 +0000) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:115633 Archived-At: > From: Robert Thorpe > 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?