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I compiled VLC0.8.2 in XP, using Cygwin.

Everything goes well except that I found that generated axvlc.dll is 15MB.
I made some subtle changes to plug-in's UI and this axvlc.dll works alright. But still I

wanna a smaller dll. The same file in windows installation version is only 5.93MB. Is it

strange?

I am pretty sure the one I compiled is a release version as during my configuration

procedure I have set the parameter "--enable-release".

Below is the script I used for compiling:

#! /bin/sh
./bootstrap && \
CPPFLAGS="-I/usr/win32/include -I/usr/win32/include/ebml" \
LDFLAGS="-L/usr/win32/lib" \
CC="gcc -mno-cygwin" CXX="g++ -mno-cygwin" \
./configure \
--disable-sdl --disable-gtk \
--disable-mkv \
--enable-nls \
--with-mad=/usr/win32 \
--enable-ffmpeg --with-ffmpeg-config-path=/usr/win32/include \
--with-ffmpeg-mp3lame --with-ffmpeg-faac \
--with-ffmpeg-zlib --enable-faad --enable-flac --enable-theora \
--with-wx-config-path=/usr/win32/bin \
--with-freetype-config-path=/usr/win32/bin \
--with-fribidi-config-path=/usr/win32/bin \
--enable-livedotcom --with-livedotcom-tree=/usr/win32/live.com \
--enable-caca --with-caca-config-path=/usr/win32/bin \
--with-xml2-config-path=/usr/win32/bin \
--with-dvdnav-config-path=/usr/win32/bin \
--disable-cddax --disable-vcdx --enable-goom \
--enable-dvdread \
--enable-optimizations \
--enable-release


Thanks in advance!!

Run 'strip axvlc.dll'

Ah, yeah, it's smaller now, 8.58MB. Thanks!!

Still, is there any other methods to make it loose more weight?

Hmm, you could try to add --disable-debug to the configure line...

I tried it, but it doesn't work.
How can they make it that small?

"they" use the following switches:
--disable-debug --enable-release

(just so you know : --enable-release isn't used anywhere in the source code/make process . I guess its a legacy configure switch )