.EXE on mingw32 -- huge size

[Jeff Sadowski]

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.
>
>