Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Large binary after compilation

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From: Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2005 23:02:45 -0700
Andrew Reeves wrote:

I've have successfully compiled Ethereal version
0.10.13. However, I find that the binary is really
huge > 24M after running 'strip -s'. I've downloaded
some ethereal rpms and the size is no where near that
large. How can I get not binary to between 5M and 15M?
Did you build it as a static binary? If so, that's probably the problem. "strip" (without "-s") on the OS X PowerPC dynamically-linked binary I built recently yields a file of about 1M. 

On what operating system are you building it?