emboss binaries for windows

[David Starks-Browning]

On Thursday 12 Jun 03, voltigeur at worldonline.ch writes:
> Hello,
> 
> For those who wanted the binaries (and maybe for others),
> while making a zip file I've noticed that the size is huge
> (about 2 Mo for every program is making a zip file of about
> 114 Mo). That obviously wouldn't fit in an e-mail attachment...
> Unless I can put it on a server somewhere I'm afraid you'll
> have to use the HowTo I'm currently writing (expect it today
> or tomorrow) and compile everything yourself.
> The cygwin environment is handy but not optimized.

You could try using "strip" on the binaries or do the equivalent with
a gcc command line option.

What you're seeing is a feature of gcc, that symbols are included by
default.  I don't think it's Cygwin's fault.

Regards,
David