Re: [gnugo-devel] Question regarding compiling gnugo on windows

[Paul Pogonyshev]

I wrote:
> > I recently compiled my own version of gnugo for windows
> > using the latest mingw / msys stuff. Unfortunately my
> > binary was about 10 times bigger than all other mingw/cygwin
> > versions floating around (officially and unofficially).
>
> Current (CVS) version of GNU Go executable should be around 4.3M with
> debug information, 2.3M without.  Version 3.4 was about the same size,
> 3.2 was larger.  The largest GNU Go executable was somewhere between
> versions 3.2 and 3.4 - around 6.5M / 4.4M.
>
> I have no idea of pre-3.2 GNU Go size, but presumably it was way
> smaller.  Are you sure you compared your size with size of a same
> version binary?

There are also executable packers such as `upx' (if i remember the name
correctly).  They can reduce the size of GNU Go binary a lot, because
patterns (the largest part of the binary if it is stripped) consist
of a very limited set of bytes, mostly zeros.

Paul Pogonyshev