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Re: [Mingw-cross-env-list] Similarities between Mingw-cross-env, *BSD Po
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Volker Grabsch |
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Re: [Mingw-cross-env-list] Similarities between Mingw-cross-env, *BSD Ports, and Gentoo Portage |
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Sun, 10 Jul 2011 22:56:23 +0200 |
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Nikos Chantziaras schrieb:
> On 07/10/2011 04:47 PM, Volker Grabsch wrote:
> >
> >It is often hard enough to reproduce issues where everyone runs
> >exactly the same (full-featured) build. Allowing that kind of
> >flexibility would result in bug reports (and the need to invest
> >time to fix those) for many different configurations. And for what?
> >Just for saving a few hundred KB in the output *.exe files?
>
> Oh, it's more than a few kB. I was able to cut the size from over
> 20MB to 8MB. This also included building everything with
> "-fdata-sections -ffunction-sections" and using a patched binutils
> to link with "--gc-sections" to do dead code stripping.
That's impressive, indeed. Were you able to cut that down further
using UPX?
Anyway, the other issues I mentioned remain. So feel free to continue
the discussion on those points. Perhaps I'm just overlooking a way
how to provide more flexibility without running into a maintenance
nightmare.
Greets,
Volker
--
Volker Grabsch
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- [Mingw-cross-env-list] Failed to update xine-lib package, Alexandre Bacquart, 2011/07/08
- Re: [Mingw-cross-env-list] Failed to update xine-lib package, Volker Grabsch, 2011/07/09
- Re: [Mingw-cross-env-list] Failed to update xine-lib package, Nikos Chantziaras, 2011/07/10
- [Mingw-cross-env-list] Similarities between Mingw-cross-env, *BSD Ports, and Gentoo Portage, Volker Grabsch, 2011/07/10
- Re: [Mingw-cross-env-list] Similarities between Mingw-cross-env, *BSD Ports, and Gentoo Portage, Nikos Chantziaras, 2011/07/10
- Re: [Mingw-cross-env-list] Similarities between Mingw-cross-env, *BSD Ports, and Gentoo Portage,
Volker Grabsch <=
- Re: [Mingw-cross-env-list] Similarities between Mingw-cross-env, *BSD Ports, and Gentoo Portage, Nikos Chantziaras, 2011/07/10
Re: [Mingw-cross-env-list] Failed to update xine-lib package, Alexandre Bacquart, 2011/07/10