[Scummvm-devel] Daily/nightly Win32 builds

[Michael Madsen]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Max Horn [mailto:max at quendi.de]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2011 10:17 PM
> Cc: scummvm-devel at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: Re: [Scummvm-devel] Daily/nightly Win32 builds
> 
> PS: I was quite surprised when I learned that scummvm.exe is 192 MB,
> unstripped. The Mac OS X executable, for comparison, is just 30M. Granted,
> that's without static linking stuff, but that just adds a few MB. Anybody
> got a clue why the unstripped win32 exe is *that* large? Is it really only
> the debug symbols?

I just pulled the latest changes and ran a standard configure/make on my computer, using GCC 4.3.3. The resulting binary came out at ~67MB (70,308,408 bytes), and compressing it with 7-zip resulted in a 12.6MB archive (13,254,283 bytes).

After running strip on the binary, the new size was 15.82MB (16,586,752 bytes), 3.35MB (3.520.691 bytes) compressed.

Not sure where the 192MB figure is from - maybe that's with all engines enabled - but it certainly seems to account for a lot, and it seems like it would indeed be very reasonable to provide stripped binaries as a low-bandwidth alternative.

Michael