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- Subject: Re: [AD] FW: Allegro Problem (cygwin compile on 4.0.2)
- From: Evert Glebbeek <eglebbk@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2002 10:59:15 +0200
- Invalid-uucp-from: From eglebbk@xxxxxxxxxx Thu Sep 19 19:15:22 2002
- Organization: University of Amsterdam
Don't know about most other things, but
> Besides this the library and dll is created o.k., but is is
> very big (more than 900 KB) is this normal? The size of the
> precompiled binary in all402_bin.zip (available on the net)
> is only 224 KB.
> Do you know a reason for this?
I remember a similar question on Allegro.cc some time ago. IIRC, the answer
was that the precompiled binary was created with MSVC, which apparently
gives a smaller DLL than MinGW does. I'm not sure, but it may also be
compressed with UPX.
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Evert Glebbeek
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