optlink options to reduce file size?

simendsjo simendsjo at gmail.com
Wed Jul 27 10:16:40 PDT 2011


On 27.07.2011 15:45, Dmitry Olshansky wrote:
> On 27.07.2011 15:21, simendsjo wrote:
>> A simple hello world like dfl application takes 1.2mb. Upx does a
>> great job packing this to 200k, but I wonder if there is a way to make
>> optlink generate smaller executables?
>>
>> I couldn't find a way to get help on the numerous options in optlink,
>> and the help page at digitalmars doesn't list them either.
> I've noticed around two times smaller exes when linked with unilink. So
> if you don't like packing you may try it:
> ftp://ftp.styx.cabel.net/pub/UniLink/ulnb0319.zip
> <ftp://ftp.styx.cabel.net/pub/UniLink/>
> just make sure you configured it correctly (should be straightforward,
> there are examples)
>

Thanks. Any idea if unilink works with libraries linked with optlink?
I get "Error: Invalid library file (3) 'some optlink.lib'"


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