[Dubbel]

I downloaded and installed Project Builder, after building the Carbon example "CarbonToolbar" without debug symbols I checked the filesize of the generated executable.

For such a simple program it is huge [128K] one of the reasons for this is the image cut.icns which alone is 64K.

But what is in the remaining 64K?
Is it possible to reduce the filesize of CarbonToolbar?






PS. English is not my native language

[Chuckit]

I haven't personally looked at CarbonToolbar, but just as a guess, are there any other resources (e.g. pictures that go in the toolbar)? Those can add up pretty fast. Why don't you look in the bundle and see what's so large?

Also, did you try turning on optimization to -O3? It's not usually as large an improvement as turning off debug symbols, but it can help sometimes.

[Gul Banana]

-Os will reduce size more than -O3 will; O3 may actually increase size due to increased inlining.

[Chuckit]

Originally posted by Gul Banana:
-Os will reduce size more than -O3 will; O3 may actually increase size due to increased inlining.

That's what I would've figured, but I've actually gotten some smaller files with -03. Or at least I thought I did; I suppose maybe it was just the Get Info box being creative....