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On Sep 26, 3:00 pm, litchie <licha...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sep 26, 5:29 am, Eli Zaretskii <e...@gnu.org> wrote:
>
> > > From: litchie <licha...@gmail.com>
> > > Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2007 02:00:56 -0700
>
> > > I want to build a smaller emacs, I mean the executable emacs.exe.
> > > Currently it is around 27M..
>
> > You mean, your executable file emacs.exe is 27MB?  It should be only
> > 10MB (6MB if you strip off debugging info).
>
> Could you please tell me how to do it? My system is winxp with MinGW.
>
> Thanks in advance.
> chaoji

I find the strip utility and use --strip-all to get it down to 21MB.
It is still a bigger one than that you mentioned.