[CLN-list] growth of libcln.a (was Re: cln/ginac port to windows)

[Michael Miller]

Richard B. Kreckel wrote:
> Of course, patches for CLN proper that help users build it are most
> welcome, as they would certainly be useful for the audience of future
> releases, too. But the way I'm reading your email is that there was no
> need to patch anything, right?

That is correct; I did not need to patch anything to get cln to compile
under MinGW.  I do have a question, though.

In my previous version (gmp-4.2.4 & cln-1.2.2), the three largest files
produced were:
6924998 ./mingw/lib/debug/libstdc++.a
5667670 ./mingw/lib/libcln.a
4019200 ./mingw/libexec/gcc/mingw32/3.4.5/cc1plus.exe

Currently (gmp-4.3.1 & cln-1.3.0), the three largest files produced are:
131718308 ./mingw/lib/libcln.a
6924998 ./mingw/lib/debug/libstdc++.a
4019200 ./mingw/libexec/gcc/mingw32/3.4.5/cc1plus.exe

Note that libcln.a has gone from 5MB to 131MB.  Is that to be expected?
 (In both cases, I compiled cln using the generic ./configure, make,
make check, make install.)

Mike Miller