From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How to build a smaller emacs
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2007 11:15:18 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ubqbp7pp5.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1190791137.299700.122810@57g2000hsv.googlegroups.com> (message from litchie on Wed, 26 Sep 2007 00:18:57 -0700)
> From: litchie <lichaoji@gmail.com>
> Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2007 00:18:57 -0700
>
> 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.
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.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-09-26 9:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-09-25 9:00 How to build a smaller emacs litchie
2007-09-25 9:10 ` Jason Rumney
2007-09-25 9:33 ` litchie
2007-09-25 12:10 ` weber
2007-09-25 12:17 ` weber
2007-09-26 6:59 ` litchie
2007-09-26 8:06 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-09-25 17:25 ` David Hansen
2007-09-27 8:11 ` Peter Danenberg
2007-09-25 20:17 ` Ken Goldman
2007-09-25 21:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.1287.1190755789.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-09-26 7:00 ` litchie
2007-09-26 7:18 ` litchie
2007-09-26 9:15 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
[not found] ` <mailman.1305.1190798128.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-09-26 9:37 ` litchie
2007-09-26 9:56 ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-09-26 11:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-09-26 11:58 ` Juanma Barranquero
[not found] ` <mailman.1314.1190807921.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-09-26 15:30 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-09-26 19:49 ` David Kastrup
2007-09-26 20:49 ` Peter Dyballa
[not found] ` <mailman.1312.1190804920.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-09-27 4:33 ` litchie
2007-09-27 4:41 ` litchie
2007-09-27 9:08 ` Peter Dyballa
2007-09-28 3:38 ` sxzzsf
2007-09-28 8:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-09-27 7:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.1374.1190879783.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-09-28 15:27 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-09-26 11:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
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