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From: ralf@b.gp.cs.cmu.edu (Ralf Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer
Subject: Re: Compiling GNUPLOT with Topspeed C - Got it!
Message-ID: <9951@pt.cs.cmu.edu>
Date: 19 Jul 90 03:22:58 GMT
References: <1990Jul18.171005.8884@portia.Stanford.EDU> <2005@cod.NOSC.MIL>
Organization: Carnegie-Mellon University, CS/RI
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In article <2005@cod.NOSC.MIL> ganzer@cod.nosc.mil.UUCP (Mark T. Ganzer) writes:
}In article <1990Jul18.171005.8884@portia.Stanford.EDU> dhinds@portia.Stanford.EDU (David Hinds) writes:
}>Well, I've got GNUPLOT working fine now.  I am very impressed with the
}>Topspeed compiler.  GNUPLOT.EXE tips the scales at 147K; the executable
}>that is packed with the archive was 296K as generated by Turbo C!  When
}
}Did you use the same drivers that were used in the Turbo-C makefile? The
}version I downloaded from SIMTEL has an executable size of 204K and was
}compiled with Turbo-C, but has a smaller set of output drivers.

Also, compiling with debugger info generally comes pretty close to doubling
the size of the executable.
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