On 14 August 2012 09:02, Kai Tietz wrote: > 2012/8/14 Corinna Vinschen: >> On Aug 14 08:46, Andy Koppe wrote: >>> Yep, mintty builds fine with that, and appears to work. For some >>> reason it's 9K bigger than with the current w32api though. >> >> I think this is because the mingw-w64 libs come with a couple more >> static elements built into the libs (GUIDs and stuff). >> >> Kai, can you explain the difference? >> >> >> Corinna > > Well, major difference here is - as you already mentioned - the fact > that mingw-w64 provides some helper-routines (as described by msdn) in > ws2_32 and some other libraries. Also the uuid-library is a bit > bigger. Also we provide some of the intrinsic-function as > inline-code, which might be responsible for some size-improvment - but > better optimization - you notice.
Fair enough. I just highlighted it in case it's unexpected. > Btw have you checked size with > debugging-information, or without? Without. Andy