[Gambas-user] Apparently huge exectable file

[Fabien Bodard]

Le Sunday 13 January 2008 22:43:28 richard terry, vous avez écrit :
> > Could you show us the output of "ls -arlh" typed in your project
> > directory?
>
> Good Idea, here it is. I re-ran the make executable (after removing would
> you beleive 2.3 GIG of files (don't ask!) but despite the total project now
> being only 1.8 MB, then exectable still weighs in at 2 GIG!!! (which I've
> removed again from this listing).
>
> Sorry to be such a klutz, Bernoit says he will run my code but I'll try and
> trim it down a little first.
>
> Any more suggestions welcomes, will try and look at this in between
> patients today.
>
> Thanks.
>
> On Sun, 13 Jan 2008 07:41:29 pm Stefano Palmeri wrote:
> > Alle 08:57, domenica 13 gennaio 2008, Benoit Minisini ha scritto:
> > > On dimanche 13 janvier 2008, richard terry wrote:
> > > > I tried compiling my project (as get just basically a gui).
> > > >
> > > > Takes for ages, and in the installation directory I end up with a
> > > > 2.0GIG, yes GIG file called project1.gambas (which I was silly enough
> > > > to click on and dosn't run).
> > > >
> > > > In the Project1/ directory root there is also a file called
> > > > project1.gambas weighing in at a huge 52K!!!!!, yeah,well small cf
> > > > the other one.
> > > >
> > > > If I type gbx2 project1.gambas up pops my program
> > > >
> > > > What's is happening?
> > > >
> > > > Richard
> > >
> > > Please send your project to my private e-mail, without the 2Gb file of
> > > course!
> > >
> > > Regards,
> >
> > Is it possible that you stored a lot of file in project1/Data directory
> > and when making the executable all that file were inglobated in the
> > executable, isnt'it?
> >
> > Could you show us the output of "ls -arlh" typed in your project
> > directory?
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Stefano
> >
> >
> >
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can you try this :

make an archive of your project and tell us the size of this archive...

Project->generate->archive