From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Chetan Pandya Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: emacs.exe is > 32M for w32 Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 10:25:03 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <256710.41879.qm@web80705.mail.mud.yahoo.com> References: Reply-To: pandyacus@sbcglobal.net NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1235759142 14630 80.91.229.12 (27 Feb 2009 18:25:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 18:25:42 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Feb 27 19:26:56 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Ld7Pw-0006z1-K5 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 27 Feb 2009 19:26:36 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:41536 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ld7Ob-00041y-PZ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 27 Feb 2009 13:25:13 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Ld7OX-00041j-6C for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 27 Feb 2009 13:25:09 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Ld7OV-00041J-Lu for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 27 Feb 2009 13:25:08 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=40698 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ld7OV-00041B-GF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 27 Feb 2009 13:25:07 -0500 Original-Received: from web80705.mail.mud.yahoo.com ([209.191.72.92]:28936) by monty-python.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Ld7OV-00013O-3t for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 27 Feb 2009 13:25:07 -0500 Original-Received: (qmail 45568 invoked by uid 60001); 27 Feb 2009 18:25:03 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=sbcglobal.net; h=Received:X-Mailer:Date:From:Reply-To:Subject:To:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Message-ID; b=JV3awyySew4WH6DhVjeE/EmB0EVLx6va4OBUUQDug2t6MP3BVR4lNw6H0yxcxh9z5Zw286eErv92OxvlNzl/8lZAOMdqZSYCioxGhT9mVelijkNUVtY40TQ16WqNPSrXPDGKH300tzUuwSmgf+UtCtPqg10FAiL1gRgLqnPHWR4=; Original-Received: from [76.200.183.58] by web80705.mail.mud.yahoo.com via HTTP; Fri, 27 Feb 2009 10:25:03 PST X-Mailer: YahooMailWebService/0.7.260.1 In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: FreeBSD 6.x (1) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:109368 Archived-At: > Emacs from: http://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/pretest/windows/ > > The executable emacs.exe is larger than 32 Mb. > > http://ourcomments.org/cgi-bin/emacsw32-dl-latest.pl suffers the same > problem. > > Can this be made smaller? I have seen other people provided a much > smaller executable (~8.7M). For example: > > http://code.google.com/p/emacs-for-windows/ > It is possible to strip the executable (using strip.exe). It is generally better to have the debug information, as it can provide better diagnostics. Pretest versions are generally meant for people who are willing to help with bugs so it makes sense to have debugging information. It increases the download size, but has no other ill effects.