Smaller DLL

[Larry]

This is just a little ditty I use to keep my Windows dll smaller... I plop this code in somewhere...

Code: [Select]

// This is to prevent the CRT from loading, thus making this a smaller
//  and faster dll.
extern BOOL __stdcall _DllMainCRTStartup( HINSTANCE hinstDLL, DWORD fdwReason, LPVOID lpvReserved)
{
    Sleep(0);
    return DllMain( hinstDLL, fdwReason, lpvReserved );
}


[Larry]

I really am not sure why the Sleep(0) is there... I don't remember...

anyway, it knocks my 12k dll down to 6k

[Timppa]

If You just use Win32 API and want to drop CRT, check Matt Pietrek's libctiny.lib

[Anonymous]

If You just use Win32 API and want to drop CRT, check Matt Pietrek's libctiny.lib

I am interested... but I link with libctiny and get errors...cannot find libc.lib... I suppose there is complicated stuff involved... I will stay tuned...

Lar.

[TimoVJL]

Test with this prebuild.

You can also use this in one file project:

#pragma nodefaultlib
#pragma comment(lib, "libctiny.lib");

[czerny]

LibCTiny4PC2.ZIP (19.76 kB - downloaded 142 times.)

Timo: Why have you set the -Zl Flag?

[TimoVJL]

/Zl Prevents linker directives from being emitted to the object file.

this way CRT-library is avoided.

[czerny]

/Zl Prevents linker directives from being emitted to the object file.

this way CRT-library is avoided.

Ahhh!

This is a translation error!

In the german IDE -Zl Standardbibliothek in Objektdatei übermitteln

that means the opposite!