What can be done to reduce executable size?

[Trass3r]

> Sorry, I meant EXCLUDING the 'hello world' part.
>
> i.e. a program that (literally) does nothing should not require anything  
> except argument-parsing, which can be done through msvcrt.dll's  
> __wgetmainargs(). So really, it should hardly need any code at all.

I know it shouldn't. But currently you still have to statically link the  
runtime, gc, etc. even in an empty program:
http://thecybershadow.net/d/mapview/view.php?id=4ee3b98636422