How do I change a project name? I named it something like "dadadafa" but now that it works I want to rename it to the project's REAL name but I can't find the setting.
[edit] nevermind
How do I change a project name? I named it something like "dadadafa" but now that it works I want to rename it to the project's REAL name but I can't find the setting.
[edit] nevermind
Last edited by Welder; 11-06-2007 at 05:04 PM.
Output file is 5 times smaller than with GCC!
That'll be the dynamic linking - and you possibly didn't strip executables built with MinGW.
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Strip executables built with MinGW?
Ken Fitlike, by stripping executables, what do you mean? Like turning off debugging info and such?
Originally Posted by mikeman118
I wouldn't just yet......
"Man alone suffers so excruciatingly in the world that he was compelled to invent laughter."
Friedrich Nietzsche
"I spent a lot of my money on booze, birds and fast cars......the rest I squandered."
George Best
"If you are going through hell....keep going."
Winston Churchill
Why not? I just downloaded it and tried it and it works fine. I see no differences between 2005 and 2008.
Because not many projects you DL will run on it.
Not fully tested (ie SP1 is yet to be released).
It is not in use by commercial software houses yet (all I have worked for still use MSVC 6 or 2003).
Not really enough reasons (now I write them down), just my opinion.......
In MSVC 2002 (shortest lived MSVC release) there are lots of 'interesting' bugs...
Like the one where you add a border to a TAB control but MSVC 2002 also adds the 'ownerdraw' style to the TAB (meaning the TAB control will no longer appear on screen).
The only way to find/fix this was to search the script.rc file (MSVC generated) for the TAB control's declaration and manually edit the styles.
This assumes you know what the bug is, know where to find the TAB's declaration, know what style to remove and can do so without breaking the entire projects resources.
"Man alone suffers so excruciatingly in the world that he was compelled to invent laughter."
Friedrich Nietzsche
"I spent a lot of my money on booze, birds and fast cars......the rest I squandered."
George Best
"If you are going through hell....keep going."
Winston Churchill
Maybe I will just continue to tinker with 2005 then.
Thanks novacain.
MinGW faq: Why is my C++ binary so large?
Building with the -s linker switch does the same thing as that faq describes ie removes the debugging information.
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Alright, that's what I thought. Thanks.
