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From: The Chief
Subject: Danger!
Date: 26 Jan 2004, 19:22:09

On 26 Jan 2004 at 9:46, Russell Whitaker wrote:

> On Mon, 26 Jan 2004, Peter Norton wrote:
> 
> > Dave,
> >
> > Thank you - it sounds promissing. I'll play with it
> > tomorrow.
> >
> > Today tried Cygwin. Yes - binutils are fixed there and
> > files are clear but ... it blows up my foo.pas to more
> > then 1 MB - ~300 KB exe + 960 KB Cygwin1.dll !
> > >1 MB for just "begin end". Brrrr.
> Could you dynamic link the Cygwin1.dll ?
> Just a thought

The DLL *is* dynamically linked to the executables. I think what he 
meant was that he has to ship the DLL in addition to his executable. 

If the program is for your own use on your own system, the size of the 
Cygwin DLL is a non-issue, since it is already there.
Best regards, The Chief
--------
Prof. Abimbola A. Olowofoyeku (The African Chief) 
web:  http://www.bigfoot.com/~african_chief/

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