From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: litchie Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to build a smaller emacs Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2007 02:37:48 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <1190799468.526331.59250@o80g2000hse.googlegroups.com> References: <1190710856.061102.35940@50g2000hsm.googlegroups.com> <1190790033.813100.216860@n39g2000hsh.googlegroups.com> <1190791137.299700.122810@57g2000hsv.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1190799693 16379 80.91.229.12 (26 Sep 2007 09:41:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2007 09:41:33 +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 Sep 26 11:41:29 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IaTOR-0000Fz-TP for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 26 Sep 2007 11:41:20 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IaTOO-0002SP-Jl for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 26 Sep 2007 05:41:16 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!o80g2000hse.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 37 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 207.46.92.18 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1190799468 9642 127.0.0.1 (26 Sep 2007 09:37:48 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2007 09:37:48 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en) AppleWebKit/522.15.5 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.0.3 Safari/522.15.5,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) X-HTTP-Via: 1.1 JPN-PRXY-08 Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: o80g2000hse.googlegroups.com; posting-host=207.46.92.18; posting-account=ps2QrAMAAAA6_jCuRt2JEIpn5Otqf_w0 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:152363 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:47872 Archived-At: On Sep 26, 5:15 pm, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > From: litchie > > Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2007 00:18:57 -0700 > > > On Sep 26, 3:00 pm, litchie wrote: > > > On Sep 26, 5:29 am, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > > > > > From: litchie > > > > > 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. > > How did it get this large in the first place? What compiler did you > use to build it? If you didn't build it yourself, where did you > download the binary? > > I didn't do anything special to build Emacs (with the MinGW port of > GCC), and the resulting binary emacs.exe is 10MB before stripping it. I built it with MinGW. (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600) The emacs.exe from ntemacs.sourceforge.net is also around 20MB.