Re: mingw32 cross compiler produces large exe files

[Ilya Martynov <m_ilya@agava.com>]

DP> I've noticed that using the mingw32 cross compiler under debian seems to
DP> generate exe files much larger than if I compile under windows.

DP> in the order of 11K to 250K which is fairly significant for a very
DP> simple program with 800B of source code!

DP> Does anyone know why this might be, or if there are settings which might
DP> affect compiled file size?

If debugging symbols are turned on than it should significantly
increase compiled file size.

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