Re: [Dev-C++] executable size

[Per W. <pw...@ia...>]

When compiling with debug information on, every new include file results
in larger executable. windows.h isn't any include file. It is THE include
file. It continues to include a lot of other windows files.

/Per W


On Tue, 17 Sep 2002, The Tone'ster wrote:

> 
> hi,
> 
> noob here again.
> 
> I notice that simply doing a #include <windows.h> increases my executable size
> by some 250k without touching any functions in my code within WIN32.
> 
> Again, I am a Java programmer, so I am trying to get my head around how this
> stuff works.
> 
> Is this increase in size due to needing a larger 'text' segment for all of the
> stuff defined in <windows.h> and the 5 zillion #includes it pulls in ?
> 
> Or ... is this because libs or something are getting statically linked into the
> executable ?
> 
> TIA,
> Tony
> 
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