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dll shrinkage #140196 23/01/06 12:35 AM
Joined: Oct 2005 Posts: 827 P pouncer OP Hoopy frood
OP pouncer Hoopy frood P Joined: Oct 2005 Posts: 827	i know this can be done, but couldnt seem to find any options to do with it, when i build my dll, it appears in the folder 'Debug', and its over 200kb in size theres a way i can put it as 'Release' format which shrinks it to something like 20kb, any of you guys know how to do this?

Re: dll shrinkage #140197 23/01/06 12:36 AM
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hixxy Hoopy frood H Joined: Sep 2005 Posts: 2,881	Compiler?

Re: dll shrinkage #140198 23/01/06 12:53 AM
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Darwin_Koala Fjord artisan D Joined: Feb 2004 Posts: 206 Canberra, Australia	Umm, I know this may sound obvious - but perhaps you should compile it in production mode, not debug mode. Sounds like you might do well to search for a tutorial on Visual Studio/C++ as these problems are generic [V]C++ programming issues (lessons to be learnt by novice programmers) rather than issues relating to mIRC scripting. Cheers, DK. Darwin_Koala Junior Brat, In-no-cent(r)(tm) and original source of DK-itis!

Re: dll shrinkage #140199 23/01/06 01:10 AM
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ClickHeRe Fjord artisan C Joined: Jan 2003 Posts: 249 Ottawa, Canada	Debug is for testing purposes and the compiler includes many more tracking things Go in the build menu and choose configuration manager and set the build to Release for a release version which will be around 80 KB in size before compiler optimizations. Then look at this page http://www.catch22.net/tuts/minexe.asp which also contains other useful Win32 tutorials. David DCX - Dialog Control eXtension

Re: dll shrinkage #140200 23/01/06 01:15 AM
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OP pouncer Hoopy frood P Joined: Oct 2005 Posts: 827	thanks guys!

Re: dll shrinkage #140201 23/01/06 01:24 AM
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OP pouncer Hoopy frood P Joined: Oct 2005 Posts: 827	and also guys, is there any option i can use to optimise the dll for small code?

Re: dll shrinkage #140202 23/01/06 01:57 AM
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ClickHeRe Fjord artisan C Joined: Jan 2003 Posts: 249 Ottawa, Canada	Look at the tutorial boy! David DCX - Dialog Control eXtension

Re: dll shrinkage #140203 23/01/06 02:36 AM
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OP pouncer Hoopy frood P Joined: Oct 2005 Posts: 827	ok i put this in #pragma optimize("Os", on) and dll size is still 32kb, did you use this in your dcx dll david?

Re: dll shrinkage #140204 23/01/06 11:50 AM
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ClickHeRe Fjord artisan C Joined: Jan 2003 Posts: 249 Ottawa, Canada	read the whole tutorial, there is not only one optimization to be used, but many of which some I did not use, like replacing the heap stuff, and the libc. You can configure these options in the menu project - settings dialog in the C/C++ and Link parts where all these things are displayed for most of them (I assume you are on VC++ 6 from the source you gave me). Last edited by ClickHeRe; 23/01/06 11:52 AM. David DCX - Dialog Control eXtension

Re: dll shrinkage #140205 25/01/06 02:42 PM
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NaquadaServ Fjord artisan N Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 580	#pragma check_stack(off) #pragma comment(linker,"/OPT:NOWIN98") #define WIN32_LEAN_AND_MEAN NaquadaBomb www.mirc-dll.com

Re: dll shrinkage #140206 25/01/06 03:47 PM
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OP pouncer Hoopy frood P Joined: Oct 2005 Posts: 827	thanks for the reply mate, the dll is oddly 80kb lol still the same after i put those header things in :S i think it might be the way i made the project cos it has a stdafx.cpp in it too and it also has #include "stdafx.h" #include "pcrt32.h" which if i comment out, stops it compiling properly. i think i should make an empty dll project and start from scratch? Last edited by pouncer; 25/01/06 03:49 PM.

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