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Re: The Most Compressed

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From: Jeff Kish
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2004 00:32
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On Mon, 30 Aug 2004 21:11:47 +0430, "Pedram" <nover@hever.sever>
wrote:

>You Mean www.aspack.com? :-)
>
>anyway ...
>My Hello World sample that is like below :
>    #include <windows.h>
>    #include "dialogs.hpp"
>    #pragma hdrstop
>    #pragma argsused
>    WINAPI WinMain(HINSTANCE hInstance, HINSTANCE hPrevInstance, LPSTR
>lpCmdLine, int nCmdShow)
>    {
>      ShowMessage("This is a Hello World!");
>      return 0;
>    }
>has 12288 bytes lenght when I dont attach any RTL
>if I attach RTLs , (RunTimePachage and Dynamic RTL) it wont compile becasue
>there is VCL components/RTLs I think.
>Then when I only arrach Dynamic RTLs it becomes : 51712
>
>I personally think , It is possible to make a 1 Kilobytes exe file to do a
>very simple job like Hello World !!
>What you peoples think? thx for your attentions.
>
>and ASPACK make it 31744 bytes :-? good work for aspack :-)
>
>any more idea?
>
>
>
no. sorry. aspack was my solution to shrink bloated exe's.
I had problems making it work on dlls however.
You may need to use other compilers to make smaller executables... 
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