Big problem with Small programs

Walter Bright newshound at digitalmars.com
Tue Jan 23 15:26:08 PST 2007


Sean Kelly wrote:
> As you can see, simply putting the Win32 object files into a library 
> prior to linking reduced the application size by 51,100 bytes, but 
> separate compilation had the same (bad) result as compiling all modules 
> on one line.

I suggest linking with /MAP, which will generate a .map file listing all 
the modules linked in, and all the global symbols linked in. It's a lot 
easier to see what's happening with that than guessing based on the file 
size.



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