Linux executable size big ?

[USCode]

Anyone know why executables created by PB are so big on Linux as compared to the ones generated on Windows?

One of my applications on Windows is 17KB, but is 890KB when compiled on Linux!

Anything I can do to reduce that? Maybe some library is being linked in and I can pass a flag to prevent that?

[Fred]

I will check but it was even smaller than windows exe here..

[USCode]

Thanks Fred!
I'm on SuSE 9.0 and compiled the program with PB 3.81, using this syntax:

./pbcompiler MyProgram.pb -e MyProgram

One strange thing I noticed is that in addition to creating huge executables, it also creates a 'purebasic.exe' executable when I compile my normal Linux executable??? So at that time I have 2 executables. If I rename the 'purebasic.exe' file to a normal Linux executable name, then I can run it! This file has the exact same bytesize as my Linux executable.

I also got this warning in trying to compile an app:
/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i586-suse-linux/3.3.1/../../../../i586-suse-linux/bin/ld: Warning: alignment 1 of symbol `PB_StringBase' in purebasic.o is smaller than 4 in Network.a(Network.o)


I must be doing something wrong! Some setting wrong?

[Snooze]

I've got the same problem...

[USCode]

Fred, were you able to figure out the Linux executable size issue?
Thanks!

[Shannara]

Any Answer?

[GeoTrail]

When I compile on Mandrake 10.1 the filesize is about the same as on Windows.

[olejr]

I also did a test compile on Windows & Linux,
and the filesize was: Linux: 10740bytes Windows: 7168bytes..

As of the problem with two executables I don't have that..

BTW: MandrakeLinux 10.0 & Windows XP Pro. PB v3.91

[GeoTrail]

olejr, could you post the code you compiled here so I can test it in Mandrake 10.1?

[olejr]

olejr, could you post the code you compiled here so I can test it in Mandrake 10.1?

It's a "project" I'm working on.. 9 source files....

[GeoTrail]

OK, I'll compile one of the PB samples then

[Shannara]

on coLinux, it is about 2x the windows size.