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Optimizing dll size

Well, that's the question, how do you make the dll file smaller? I'm using Visual C++ 6.0, and making a release build with the "minimize size" option turned on (for all the sub-projects too). Still the dll size is well over 200KiB. Most plugins seem to be under 100KiB. The project uses ptypes and sqlite3 libraries, but I just can't believe that would cause such a big increase in the size. The source code itself isn't extremely long (1500 lines or so). Any ideas?

Optimizing dll size

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PTypes, maybe. Sqlite3, maybe as well, unless you are using the dynamic library version.

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Well, that's the question, how do you make the dll file smaller? I'm using Visual C++ 6.0, and making a release build with the "minimize size" option turned on (for all the sub-projects too). Still the dll size is well over 200KiB. Most plugins seem to be under 100KiB. The project uses ptypes and sqlite3 libraries, but I just can't believe that would cause such a big increase in the size. The source code itself isn't extremely long (1500 lines or so). Any ideas?
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Do decrease dll size, you can omit C runtime if you do not use C runtime functions
 

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Do decrease dll size, you can omit C runtime if you do not use C runtime functions
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.. which also breaks C++ compiler generated standard function calls. That won't work with foobar2000 SDK. Probably clashes with other libraries people use as well.
Only proper solution to that is using DLL runtime (MSVC6: Project Settings / C/C++ tab / Code Generation / Use run-time library: Multithreaded DLL).
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