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Re: Emacs 26.1 on Windows is HUGE
From: |
Óscar Fuentes |
Subject: |
Re: Emacs 26.1 on Windows is HUGE |
Date: |
Tue, 16 Apr 2019 22:54:40 +0200 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Björn Lindqvist <bjourne@gmail.com> writes:
>> Most likely the executables include debug information. It uses disk
>> space but no RAM.
>>
>> On addition to that, one thing that makes little for this distribution
>> is to include emacs.exe and emacs-26.1.exe, which are identical.
>>
>> BTW, 26.2 was just released, although the binary pretests on
>>
>> https://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/pretest/windows/emacs-26/
>>
>> have the same size.
>>
>> You can use `strip.exe' (from binutils) to remove the debug information.
>
> I tried that. I downloaded the strip.exe fom
>
> https://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/files/MinGW/Base/binutils/binutils-2.28/
>
> But when running it on the binary:
>
> > C:\code\langs\MingGW\bin\strip.exe -s emacs.exe
> C:\code\langs\MingGW\bin\strip.exe:emacs.exe: File format not recognized
You have Emacs x86_64 and that "strip.exe" executable is for i686. That
means that you have a 64 bits Emacs Windows executable but the strip.exe
executable was configured for working on 32 bits executables.
- Re: Emacs 26.1 on Windows is HUGE, (continued)
- Re: Emacs 26.1 on Windows is HUGE, Phillip Lord, 2019/04/29
- Re: Emacs 26.1 on Windows is HUGE, Eli Zaretskii, 2019/04/29
- Re: Emacs 26.1 on Windows is HUGE, Phillip Lord, 2019/04/30
- Re: Emacs 26.1 on Windows is HUGE, Eli Zaretskii, 2019/04/30
- Re: Emacs 26.1 on Windows is HUGE, Óscar Fuentes, 2019/04/30
- Re: Emacs 26.1 on Windows is HUGE, Eli Zaretskii, 2019/04/30
- Re: Emacs 26.1 on Windows is HUGE, Phillip Lord, 2019/04/30
- Re: Emacs 26.1 on Windows is HUGE, Eli Zaretskii, 2019/04/30
- Re: Emacs 26.1 on Windows is HUGE, Eli Zaretskii, 2019/04/27
Re: Emacs 26.1 on Windows is HUGE, Björn Lindqvist, 2019/04/16