From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,cb2bc43e6f95a4fe X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-05-29 14:28:01 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.uchicago.edu!newsfeed.cs.wisc.edu!144.212.100.101.MISMATCH!newsfeed!btnet-peer0!btnet-feed5!btnet!news.btopenworld.com!not-for-mail From: "Martin Dowie" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: It's been a while... Date: Thu, 29 May 2003 21:27:32 +0000 (UTC) Organization: BT Openworld Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: host217-40-221-249.in-addr.btopenworld.com X-Trace: hercules.btinternet.com 1054243652 19276 217.40.221.249 (29 May 2003 21:27:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news-complaints@lists.btinternet.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 29 May 2003 21:27:32 +0000 (UTC) X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1158 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Priority: 3 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:38019 Date: 2003-05-29T21:27:32+00:00 List-Id: "Luke A. Guest" wrote in message news:pan.2003.05.29.21.18.46.518854@__n_o_s_p_a_m__abyss2.demon.co.uk______... > Hi, > > I learned Ada at University around 1995 and I've been interested in > getting back into it. Now, I have a simple "hello" app and it is huge. > Now, I don't want to have a load of people telling me not to judge Ada on > the size, but I really want to know how to get the app size down. The app > is: > > -rwxr-xr-x 1 laguest users 200492 2003-05-29 22:16 hello > > This is an example program from the sources, compiled with: > > gnatmake -O3 You could try the binder option "-shared" and link to a shared runtime, as opposed to binding one in staticly..