From: "Óscar Fuentes" <ofv@wanadoo.es>
To: "Björn Lindqvist" <bjourne@gmail.com>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Emacs 26.1 on Windows is HUGE
Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2019 22:54:40 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r2a1u0vj.fsf@telefonica.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALG+76d46cot8hCR+Sn47egtT5aKa-9ftypjigLpSP86XALzaw@mail.gmail.com> ("Björn Lindqvist"'s message of "Tue, 16 Apr 2019 22:35:28 +0200")
Björn Lindqvist <bjourne@gmail.com> writes:
>> Most likely the executables include debug information. It uses disk
>> space but no RAM.
>>
>> On addition to that, one thing that makes little for this distribution
>> is to include emacs.exe and emacs-26.1.exe, which are identical.
>>
>> BTW, 26.2 was just released, although the binary pretests on
>>
>> https://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/pretest/windows/emacs-26/
>>
>> have the same size.
>>
>> You can use `strip.exe' (from binutils) to remove the debug information.
>
> I tried that. I downloaded the strip.exe fom
>
> https://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/files/MinGW/Base/binutils/binutils-2.28/
>
> But when running it on the binary:
>
> > C:\code\langs\MingGW\bin\strip.exe -s emacs.exe
> C:\code\langs\MingGW\bin\strip.exe:emacs.exe: File format not recognized
You have Emacs x86_64 and that "strip.exe" executable is for i686. That
means that you have a 64 bits Emacs Windows executable but the strip.exe
executable was configured for working on 32 bits executables.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-04-16 20:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-04-14 22:01 Emacs 26.1 on Windows is HUGE Björn Lindqvist
2019-04-15 1:40 ` Óscar Fuentes
2019-04-15 11:42 ` Phillip Lord
2019-04-15 14:55 ` Óscar Fuentes
2019-04-15 17:00 ` Phillip Lord
2019-04-16 20:57 ` Björn Lindqvist
2019-04-16 21:19 ` Phillip Lord
2019-04-16 22:18 ` Björn Lindqvist
2019-04-17 2:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-04-17 3:34 ` Óscar Fuentes
2019-04-17 4:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-04-17 15:28 ` Phillip Lord
2019-04-17 16:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-04-19 8:13 ` Tomas Nordin
2019-04-23 15:11 ` Phillip Lord
2019-04-25 19:54 ` Tomas Nordin
2019-04-26 16:22 ` Phillip Lord
2019-04-26 17:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-04-26 20:59 ` Phillip Lord
2019-04-26 21:29 ` Óscar Fuentes
2019-04-27 11:17 ` Phillip Lord
2019-04-27 11:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-04-29 13:55 ` Phillip Lord
2019-04-29 15:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-04-30 9:48 ` Phillip Lord
2019-04-30 15:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-04-30 15:35 ` Óscar Fuentes
2019-04-30 16:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-04-30 21:13 ` Phillip Lord
2019-05-01 2:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-05-01 4:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-05-01 14:22 ` INFOPATH on MSYS(2) (WAS: Emacs 26.1 on Windows is HUGE) Noam Postavsky
2019-05-01 17:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-05-01 22:07 ` INFOPATH on MSYS(2) Phillip Lord
2019-05-02 2:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <87pnopx929.fsf@russet.org.uk>
2019-05-11 16:14 ` Emacs 26.1 on Windows is HUGE Phillip Lord
2019-05-13 13:27 ` Óscar Fuentes
2019-04-27 7:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-04-16 20:35 ` Björn Lindqvist
2019-04-16 20:54 ` Óscar Fuentes [this message]
2019-04-17 4:09 ` Björn Lindqvist
2019-04-17 15:25 ` Óscar Fuentes
2019-04-17 16:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
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