OpenEuphoria

Re: Producing smaller exe's

• Posted by Robert Craig <rds at EMAIL.MSN.COM> Dec 04, 1997
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Daniel Johnson writes:
> I was wondering whether the whole of ex.exe is included when you
> BIND a file.
>The thing is, a lot of the compile-time stuff is redundant after binding,
> and must make up a significant proportion of the final executable.

Yes, the whole of ex.exe (or exw.exe) is included.

It would be possible for me to produce a "stripped-down"
version of ex.exe that would omit some compile-time
stuff and the debugging (tracing) and profiling stuff. I once calculated
how much I could eliminate, and concluded
that it wouldn't be all that much (maybe 20%). Furthermore, it would
make life more complicated for me if I had to build and distribute
PD and Complete *and* "stripped-down" versions of both
ex.exe and exw.exe.

Regards,
     Rob Craig
     Rapid Deployment Software