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Subject: Re: binary size (gnat+win console)
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From: Ludovic Brenta <ludovic.brenta@insalien.org>
Date: Mon, 02 Aug 2004 07:16:44 +0200
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Adrian Knoth writes:
> Andi wrote:
>
>> a simple "hello-world" binary takes 219kb after building!?
>
> Strange.
>
> ls -l Hello
> -rwxr-xr-x  1 adi users 21193 Aug  2 00:29 Hello
> strip Hello
> ls -l Hello
> -rwxr-xr-x  1 adi users 7668 Aug  2 00:29 Hello
>
> Compiler is gnat-3.15p with Ludovic's Debian-backports.
>
> But I wouldn't care too much about executable size. I guess
> having a more complex application wouldn't raise the size
> in a linear way, it's just the usual overhead (constant amount).

I would suppose that most of the difference comes from linking
statically against libgnat and/or MinGW or Cygwin on Windows.  On
Debian, gnat links dynamically by default.

-- 
Ludovic Brenta.