Subj : Re: BCB6, minimum VCL static exe 450kb? To : borland.public.cpp.borlandcpp From : Andrue Cope Date : Tue Dec 02 2003 09:07 am Santiago, > Building this project gives me a 450kb file. Is > this to be expected? It seems big. Are there any setting that I can change > to reduce the size? > Well firstly you're posting to the wrong newsgroup section. C++ Builder has it's own section all of them having CPPBUILDER in their title. As for your question it depends on the type of application you are creating and what packages you are using but sounds fairly normal for a standalone EXE using the VCL. You should consider that although the initial size seems high that's a one-time overhead. Subsequent additions to your project will only add a few kB at a time. If you want smaller EXEs don't produce standalone ones. Remember that for VCL applications standalone means including the entire core VCL library in your application. Although this library is just a wrapper around the Windows API there is still a lot of code in there. -- Andrue Cope [Bicester, UK] .