Cygwin cross compiler

Anoq of the Sun anoq@HardcoreProcessing.com
Sat, 16 Mar 2002 16:10:51 +0100



Henry Cejtin wrote:
> As to making executables which don't depend on shared  libraries,  just  like
> gcc,  mlton will honor the -static flag to make statically bound executables.
> Again, just as with C code, the resulting executables will  be  larger.   For
> the ML program
>     val _ = print "hello world0
> the  size  of  a stripped normal executable is 29,660 bytes while the size of
> the static, stripped executable is 1,729,683 bytes.  (Note, it is pretty much
> a fixed addative overhead, not any kind of multiplicative overhead, so expect
> static executables to be about 1.7 megabytes larger.)

OK - thanks a lot! This might come in handy :)

I also succeeded in downloading from Matthew's site now - I'll report
back later...


Cheers
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