I just tried that myself on both Linux and Windows and saved almost a MB
each.  Maybe the makefile should have a strip step in it?

2009/9/24 Altu Faltu <altufa...@mail.com>

> I use Windows and after making fossil.exe, I do 'strip fossil.exe' to
> reduce size.
>
> - Altu
>
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Andrey Cherezov" <and...@cherezov.koenig.su>
> > To: fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org
> > Subject: Re: [fossil-users] compact fossil binaries
> > Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2009 15:40:41 +0300
> >
> >
> > 23.09.2009 15:18, D. Richard Hipp wrote:
> > > On Sep 23, 2009, at 3:52 AM, Robert wrote:
> > >
> > >> I was wondering, how do you get such compact fossil binaries?
> > >> The best I can do is 1.1Mb compared to your 330kb for linux.
> > >>
> > > The build is done using exactly the Makefile included in the source
> > > tree, with no edits or changes of any kind, on SuSE 10.1 with GCC
> 4.1.0.
> > >
> > Under Mingw (Windows) I removed "-g" option of gcc from Makefile
> > and this reduced fossil.exe size from 3Mb to 800kb.
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