one way of making it smaller is using release instead of debug if you are using ms vc, making it smaller doesnt mean that it will be faster the compiler does optimizations and unroll loops to make it faster thus making the file bigger etc. each function in c is actually ecaluated to a number of asm commands. *usually* its a tradeoff of speed to make it smaller, the reason debug is larger than release is that it contains debug information used by the debugger etc. i *think* you can also control the sixe by removing unused libs not sure if the compiler does this or not but probably does. if you need a small exe then you can use a console application instead of a windows application since it doesnt link with some windows libraries, its usually been smaller for me at least altho size isnt *that* important at least not with that small programs

- Damage Inc.

1) Use Release mode, when compiling&linking/biulding.
2) UPX, an exe packer.

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