I just recently started learning C++ - I am using nuwen's version of MingW on Windows, using NetBeans as an IDE (I have also MSDN AA Version of MSVC 2008, though I don't use it very often).
When compiling this simple program:
#include <iostream>using namespace std;int dog, cat, bird, fish;void f(int pet) { cout << "pet id number: "<< pet << endl;}int main() { int i, j, k; cout << "f(): "<< (long)&f << endl; cout << "dog: "<< (long)&dog << endl; cout << "cat: "<< (long)&cat << endl; cout << "bird: "<< (long)&bird << endl; cout << "fish: "<< (long)&fish << endl; cout << "i: "<< (long)&i << endl; cout << "j: "<< (long)&j << endl; cout << "k: "<< (long)&k << endl;} ///:~my executable was about 1MB big. When I changed project configuration from Debug to Release, used -O1 -Os flags ( stripping debugging symbols along the way ), binary size was reduced from 1MB to 544KB.
I am not a "size freak", but I am just wondering - is there any way, that I could reduce .exe size even more? I just think, that 544KB is just too much for such a simple application ).