Re: Building CVS with CygWin -- very LARGE executable...

[Kristian Nielsen]

> I built CVS for Win32 with CygWin like "UNIX":

> but... The size of CVS.EXE is very large now -- about 1,8 Mb :(

> What is the matter?

You can run 'strip' on the .EXE to remove debugging information. I
haven't checked the CVS sources, but my CygWin installation includes a
CVS.EXE of 1.4 Mb that reduces to 500 Kb after running strip:

    $ cp /bin/cvs-cygwin.exe .
    $ ls -l cvs-cygwin.exe
    -rwxr-xr-x   1 administ None      1466946 Jan 19 09:15 cvs-cygwin.exe
    $ strip cvs-cygwin.exe
    $ ls -l cvs-cygwin.exe
    -rwxr-xr-x   1 administ None       540672 Jan 19 09:15 cvs-cygwin.exe

I think you can also put the -s linker option in LDFLAGS prior to
running autoconf; something like

    rm config.cache
    LDFLAGS=-s ./configure --disable-server

Hope this helps,

 - Kristian.