.EXE on mingw32 -- huge size

Thu Mar 20 13:52:00 GMT 2008

Is there a way to do dlls in windows with gcj
On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 7:09 AM, Marco Trudel <marco@mtsystems.ch> wrote:
> Hi Funchlady
>>> funchlady wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I tried gcj to have executables. The good news is gcj works. The size of
> > .EXE file is too huge. For example,
> > class file of a program printing "Hello World" has 410 bytes, and the
> > executable has 12.7MB.
>> That's not true. Although the class file might only have 410 bytes, you
> still need a runtime (JRE) of about 70mb to let it run. You can also
> dynamically link to libgcj (well, not on Windows), then your binaries
> will be only a couple of kb's.
>>> > "strip" cannot reduce the size, either. Is there any way to reduce the .EXE
> > size?
>> The things I know are:
> - Pack the binary (e.g. UPX [1])
> - Exclude parts of the class library (See JNC [2])
>>> Marco
>> [1] http://upx.sourceforge.net/
> [2] http://jnc.mtsystems.ch/
>> >
> > Thank you.
>>