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Re: VSE2013: How to reduce exefile-size ?

From BartC <bc@freeuk.com>
Newsgroups comp.programming
Subject Re: VSE2013: How to reduce exefile-size ?
Date 2016-03-08 12:14 +0000
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
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On 05/03/2016 00:52, ha wrote:
> Hi
>
> My programming language is c and cpp.
>
> The system is Win7 Ultimate 64 Bit.
>
>
> I am working with VisualStudioExpress 2013 and OpenWatcom.
>
>
> The same sourcefile results with watcom in a much more smaller exefile-size
> than VSE.

How much smaller? Some compilers can just generate smaller code than others.

> Is there a sort of "strip"-option, like "-s" in the gnu-compiler, for VSE ?
>
> I tried all things, that are available via the VSE-GUI. But without success.

Try a utility such as PEDUMP or DUMPPE to look inside the executables, 
and see what one includes that the other doesn't.

Maybe one statically includes a library, but the other only links to it 
dynamically.

-- 
Bartc


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VSE2013: How to reduce exefile-size ? ha <Henry_Albrecht@Safe-mail.net> - 2016-03-05 01:52 +0100
  Re: VSE2013: How to reduce exefile-size ? fir <profesor.fir@gmail.com> - 2016-03-05 05:02 -0800
  Re: VSE2013: How to reduce exefile-size ? JJ <jj4public@vfemail.net> - 2016-03-06 18:04 +0700
    Re: VSE2013: How to reduce exefile-size ? ha <Henry_Albrecht@Safe-mail.net> - 2016-03-07 18:48 +0100
  Re: VSE2013: How to reduce exefile-size ? BartC <bc@freeuk.com> - 2016-03-08 12:14 +0000
    Re: VSE2013: How to reduce exefile-size ? fir <profesor.fir@gmail.com> - 2016-03-08 13:29 -0800
  Re: VSE2013: How to reduce exefile-size ? ha <Henry_Albrecht@Safe-mail.net> - 2016-03-09 07:51 +0100
    Re: VSE2013: How to reduce exefile-size ? fir <profesor.fir@gmail.com> - 2016-03-09 13:34 -0800
      Re: VSE2013: How to reduce exefile-size ? ha <Henry_Albrecht@Safe-mail.net> - 2016-03-10 00:07 +0100
        Re: VSE2013: How to reduce exefile-size ? fir <profesor.fir@gmail.com> - 2016-03-09 15:25 -0800
          Re: VSE2013: How to reduce exefile-size ? ha <Henry_Albrecht@Safe-mail.net> - 2016-03-10 01:02 +0100
            Re: VSE2013: How to reduce exefile-size ? fir <profesor.fir@gmail.com> - 2016-03-10 07:47 -0800
        Re: VSE2013: How to reduce exefile-size ? Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2016-03-09 23:25 +0000

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