Subj : Re: BCB6, minimum VCL static exe 450kb? To : borland.public.cpp.borlandcpp From : "Santiago" Date : Wed Dec 03 2003 11:32 pm Andrue, Thank you for your reply. I will ask in the proper newsgroup. - Santiago "Andrue Cope" wrote in message news:VA.00002028.000fbda9@email.address.sorry... > 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] > .