why are my GCC applications so huge on windows?

[2EwbqMoL]

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I wrote some of what I thought was pretty elegant, concise, and efficient code...
but GCC still outputs this file at 1.5 megabytes. I just think its rather large for a console program that simply finds the sum of all multiples of two separate numbers both individually and then added together (I was solving for project euler #1, but instead of simply doing the math with C++, I wrote a program that finds the answer for any set of real numbers below any maximum amount.

all the code is is some for loops, one do while loop, a couple if statements and some maths, everything works well, there are no code problems in it... its just huge coming out of TDM-GCC.

is there any options I can feed the compiler to try and optimize for filesize better, or is the mingw runtime just that big?

[TheIdeasMan]

Hi,

Try to compile to release version as opposed to the debug version.

Hopefully you can set this option in your IDE.

Under g++ the command line option is -O3.

Hope all goes well

https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Optimize-Options.html#Optimize-Options

[JLBorges]

> options I can feed the compiler to try and optimize for filesize better

g++ -std=c++14 -O3 -Wall -Wextra -pedantic-errors -shared-libgcc -shared-libstdc++ my_program.cpp

These are some of TDM-GCC's "quirks": just a few things you need to know about TDM-GCC before diving in.
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TDM-GCC doesn't link your programs with the libgcc or libstdc++ runtime DLLs by default.
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TDM-GCC still includes DLL versions of the libgcc and libstdc++ runtimes, which you can enable for your program with "-shared-libgcc" and "-shared-libstdc++" if desired.
http://tdm-gcc.tdragon.net/quirks