Re: Emacs 26.1 on Windows is HUGE

[Óscar Fuentes]

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.