compiling setup.exe (was Re: Distributing .ISO files.)

Tue Mar 4 01:42:00 GMT 2003

Robert,
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Randall Schulz
At 17:01 2003年03月03日, Robert Citek wrote:
>At 07:27 PM 3/3/2003 -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
>>> I'm still getting my feet wet with the Cygwin sources, CVS, patch, etc.
>>> For example, I downloaded the setup module and compiled it. Instead of a
>>> ~100 K file, mine was ~10 MB. It seems to work, but obviously, I did
>>> something wrong. Or is being off by 2 orders of magnitude "close enough?"
>>>>"man strip". 
>>Will do.
>>>FYI, the stripped mingw-compiled setup.exe is just over 700k.
>>Hmmm. The one I downloaded from the web to do the Cygwin install was only
>about 170k. How do I create that one?
>>Regards,
>- Robert

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