[fpc-pascal]Can't seem to cycle a new compiler

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From:        "Michael Van Canneyt" <michael.vancanneyt at wisa.be>
To:          fpc-pascal at lists.freepascal.org
Subject:     Re: [fpc-pascal]Can't seem to cycle a new
Date sent:   Wed, 3 Mar 2004 09:10:36 +0100

> > > .. I'll drop back to the 1.0.10.
> >
> > Installed 1.0.10 and it built everything just hunky
> > dory.
> >
> > Now I have a question about the size of the exe.
> >
> > After it is built the size is 1.3 meg.
> >
> > I tried to run stripw on it but it doesn't reduce it
> > at all. Did the
> > file really jump to that size or am I just being
> > stupid and not using
> > stripw correctly.
> >
> >     stripw ppc386.exe
> 
> The make procedure runs UPX on it, so I would be
> surprised if stripw
> could do some more packing after that :-)

1.3 MB is the size of the executable _without_ compressing with
UPX. This IMHO means that either UPX wasn't found (this could be
checked in make output probably), or the chosen make target
doesn't do the compression at all (I don't know whether there are
such targets for Win32, but it's possible).

Tomas


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