Plugin question for Charles Dye

[vefatica]

Charles. How do you make your DLLs small?

With static runtime linking and DllMain, I can't get them below about 100K. If I use my own entry point and don't use any C library stuff (usually hard to do) I can make them as small as 7K.

 

[Charles Dye]

Oh, I cheat shamelessly.... I compress them with UPX. Typically shrinks them by about 50%.

Also, most of them are made with a pretty old version of Visual Studio, so there's that.

 

[vefatica]

Duh! I saw all that when I built your elevated plugin. And then I remembered that we went through this before (thanks for not reminding me). UPX and an old Visual Studio explains it all.

 

[vefatica]

I was working on a barebones version of my 4WT plugin (no exports except the three plugin-related ones). Its only purpose is to kludge around the popup location problem. In addition to using a custom entry point, disabling buffer overrun check and merging .pdata->.data brought the size down to 4608 bytes. That might be the limit. I tried more section merging to no avail.

 

[Charles Dye]

Well that's just showing off....

 

[vefatica]

Well that's just showing off....

It keeps me busy.