Tomas Frydrych wrote:
> Erm, what exactly is included in this size? I am asking because the
> non-debug AbiWord.exe (and whatever the libraries that come with it when
> it is build on mingw are; not the plugins though) should be only ~5MB,
> and as Alan said, it compresses down to a size that should fit, or
> nearly fit, a floppy. If it is 18MB, then you are compressing (and we
> are probably distributing) the binaries with debugging symbols in them,
> and someone should look into fixing this -- we should not be passing -g
> to gcc for building release binaries (or we need to run the strip
> utility on them afterwards, if that works with mingw).
A standard AbiWord install is actually 18.2MB using the installer on
abiword.com. The bins are 9MB, help is 2.25MB, strings are 4.4MB.
Those are the biggest pieces.
Regards,
John
Received on Tue Jan 10 21:07:28 2006
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