== Quote from Dmitry Olshansky ([email protected])'s article > 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)
I don't work on Windows, but I've heard optlink generates debug info and unilink doesn't, so that might be the reason?
