Re: How to build a smaller emacs

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On 9 27 ,   12 41 , litchie <licha...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sep 27, 12:33 pm, litchie <licha...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > On Sep 26, 7:08 pm, Eli Zaretskii <e...@gnu.org> wrote:
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> > > > Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2007 11:56:23 +0200
> > > > From: "Juanma Barranquero" <lek...@gmail.com>
> > > > Cc: help-gnu-em...@gnu.org
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> > > > On 9/26/07, litchie <licha...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > > > > I built it with MinGW. (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600)
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> > > > My build is 11,4 MiB before stripping.
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> > > > Configured with
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> > > >   configure --with-gcc --no-cygwin --cflags -IC:/my/includes
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> > > > and built with
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> > > >   C:\emacs> gcc --version
> > > >   gcc (GCC) 3.4.5 (mingw special)
> > > >   Copyright (C) 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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> > > > M-x version =>
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> > > >   GNUEmacs23.0.50.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600) of 2007-09-26 on JUANMAB
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> > > That's the CVS version; on my machine its size is 12MB.  I was talking
> > > aboutEmacs22.1, which is slightly smaller.
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> > > Which begs the question to chaoji: what version ofEmacswere _you_
> > > talking about?  Maybe we are comparing very different programs.
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> > EliZ,
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> > I was talking about ntemacs23, the CVS head version.
> > And I have also triedemacs22 just now, the result is 7MB, after
> > stripped.
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> To be more accurate:
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>  Directory of D:\Emacs22\bin
> 09/27/2007  11:56 AM         7,424,000emacs.exe
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>  Directory of D:\software\ntemacs23\bin
> 09/26/2007  10:40 AM        21,391,938emacs.exe
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> A better title for my post may be:
> How to build a smaller emacs23?
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> Any suggestions would be appreciated.
> thanks.-         -
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It seems while building emacs, you have not built emacs with option "--
no-debug", for cvs branch "debug is on" default, you can check this in
file nt/configure.bat.