In article <[email protected]>,
Bruce Horrocks <[email protected]> wrote:
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Despite its small size it is self-contained so nothing further to install.

Do you know what that version is? What compiler/development system, etc?
That would explain why it is smaller than expected...

(If it doesn't require any DLLs, is it "statically linked" ?)

I've no idea why the Cygwin one is so big, tbh.

I just checked my Cygwin gawk.exe file; it is 640,000 bytes long (yeah,
exactly 640K - heh heh). I didn't compile this; I installed it from the repo(s), using the usual Cygwin installer.

So, I'd imagine that that Cygwin gawk (the one OP references, that is 6M
size) was statically linked - that is, it includes all the DLLs that would normally be kept as separate files. The main cygwin dll (cygwin1.dll) is
3.5M, the MPFR one is 2.5M, the rest are trivially small, so the total size should come to about 7M. Of course, it you compile without MPFR support
(which OP probably doesn't need), it could be substantially smaller.

Maybe, just to help OP and to put this thread to rest, someone should take
the time and effort to compile up a statically linked (and thus standalone) version of gawk.exe and make it available to OP on some web site.

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On 01/08/2022 20:41, Kenny McCormack wrote:

In article <[email protected]>,
Bruce Horrocks <[email protected]> wrote:
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Despite its small size it is self-contained so nothing further to install.

Do you know what that version is? What compiler/development system, etc?

The original website I linked to just states MinGW, so presumably the
latest prior to gawk v5.1.0 being released. <http://vkiefel.de/compiled-SW.html>

That would explain why it is smaller than expected...

Personally I don't think it's smaller than expected at all. It's the
Cygwin one that I find to be much larger than I would expect. :-)

(If it doesn't require any DLLs, is it "statically linked" ?)

I suspect it is dynamically linked against the POSIX compatibility
libraries provided by Windows - but I would have to pull it apart to
check that and I no longer have those kinds of tools to hand.

I've no idea why the Cygwin one is so big, tbh.

I just checked my Cygwin gawk.exe file; it is 640,000 bytes long (yeah, exactly 640K - heh heh). I didn't compile this; I installed it from the repo(s), using the usual Cygwin installer.

So, I'd imagine that that Cygwin gawk (the one OP references, that is 6M size) was statically linked - that is, it includes all the DLLs that would normally be kept as separate files. The main cygwin dll (cygwin1.dll) is 3.5M, the MPFR one is 2.5M, the rest are trivially small, so the total size should come to about 7M. Of course, it you compile without MPFR support (which OP probably doesn't need), it could be substantially smaller. >
Maybe, just to help OP and to put this thread to rest, someone should take the time and effort to compile up a statically linked (and thus standalone) version of gawk.exe and make it available to OP on some web site.

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On 1 Aug 2022 Kenny McCormack wrote:

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I just checked my Cygwin gawk.exe file; it is 640,000 bytes long (yeah, >exactly 640K - heh heh). I didn't compile this; I installed it from the >repo(s), using the usual Cygwin installer.

So, I'd imagine that that Cygwin gawk (the one OP references, that is 6M >size) was statically linked - that is, it includes all the DLLs that would >normally be kept as separate files. The main cygwin dll (cygwin1.dll) is >3.5M, the MPFR one is 2.5M, the rest are trivially small, so the total size >should come to about 7M. Of course, it you compile without MPFR support >(which OP probably doesn't need), it could be substantially smaller.

No, I'm not using floating-point arithmetic -- nothing more complicated
than "title[workname]+=1" :-)

Maybe, just to help OP and to put this thread to rest, someone should take >the time and effort to compile up a statically linked (and thus standalone) >version of gawk.exe and make it available to OP on some web site.

I'm hoping that's what Bruce has located. (None of these versions
showed up during my initial attempts at searching for "Windows 32-bit
gawk" or "gawk for Windows" - everything I could find on the Web points
to the GnuWin32 and ezwinports pages.)

My main concern is that it may turn out to rely on the existence of
resources that are taken for granted on a programmer's machine but are
not present by default on a 'clueless' user's laptop; I don't even know
what version of Windows she is using. I did ask, but I think the
question rather got lost amid the other issues...

However, we shall find out, or may find out, *next* weekend. I have to
say that if I'd had any idea getting a 'portable' 7Kb script to run
under Windows would be this difficult I should never have suggested it -
it just occurred to me that this was one piece of software I'd written
that she *might* be able to use, since she was complaining about the
same problem that I'd written it to solve :-(

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