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General / Huge MinGW Libraries!!

« on: April 01, 2008, 07:17:23 am »

I found two ways to compile the sfml-system.dll smaller.

First way is to use <cstdio> instead of <iostream>

Second way is 'Strip all symbols from binary'. (Are there any disadvantages, if you use this?)

Original: 499.78 KB

New sizes:
With cstdio: 33.83 KB
With cstdio and strip symbols:  14.00 KB

Compiled with MS VC: 12.50 KB

edit: But MSVC SFML-Window.dll is still  40 KB smaller than MinGW SFML-window.dll
edit2: And SFML-Network.dll is 270 KB (!!) smaller

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General / Huge MinGW Libraries!!

« on: March 31, 2008, 07:58:10 pm »

Hi,

why are the libraries built with MinGW so huge?

e.g.
sfml-system.dll built with MinGW - 500 KB
sfml-system.dll built with MSVC - 13KB

And what are these files ending with *-d.dll and *-d.dll
(example: sfml-window-d.dll) ??

greets,
PS3-690