Dear Daniel, Thank you. I have tried to: x86_64-w64-mingw32-gcc -s -Os hello.c
Interestingly, the generated exe is now 18 KB. Still, that is larger than 2 KB. :-) Warm regards, Xianwen On Wed, Oct 12, 2016 at 12:49 AM, Daniel Glöckner <daniel...@gmx.net> wrote: > Hi Xianwen, > > On Tue, Oct 11, 2016 at 11:43:40PM +0200, Chen, Xianwen wrote: > > I have been very impressed by the size of exe's that TCC produces in > > Windows. For the simple hello_world.c, TCC produces an exe of 2 KB, while > > mingw-w64 produces an exe of 164 KB. Therefore, I would like to continue > to > > learn to use TCC. > > I'm pretty sure I've used MinGW to generate executables that small, > although that was probably 16 years ago. > > Try to pass -s to GCC and don't use -g to get rid of symbol tables and > debugging information. Most of the time TCC generates more code than GCC, > especially when GCC is called with -Os. > > The linker of MinGW might enforce different section alignments than TCC. > But that should add less than 10 kB of padding, regardless of the code > size. > > Best regards, > > Daniel > > _______________________________________________ > Tinycc-devel mailing list > Tinycc-devel@nongnu.org > https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/tinycc-devel >
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