Bill: Thanks! That did the trick! My Hello World program went from 27KB to 7.5KB on Windows. Much much better! On Linux it went from 6.2KB to 2.9KB. -----Original Message----- From: programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Bill Gallik Sent: 13. juli 2010 21:24 To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Huge executables when compiling in Windows You should be able to get your executables stripped by including the "-s" parameter to either compiler. But if you didn't strip the Linux versions in the first place, I'm pretty sure you'll still have a significant difference in size between the two OS's. ---- Holland's Person, Bill E-Mail: BillGallik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx - The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese! __________ View the list's information and change your settings at //www.freelists.org/list/programmingblind __________ View the list's information and change your settings at //www.freelists.org/list/programmingblind