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Started by Boder June 27, 2005 11:16 PM

6 comments, last by Boder 18 years, 9 months ago

Boder

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June 27, 2005 11:16 PM

I can't get the compiler to perform as well as the people who compiled the tutorial samples for a library I'm looking at. You can see the difference in size, and I want to understand how I can get the compiler to perform as well before I move on. THEM: 35,840 B ME: 55,808 B Here are the options I am using for the commands: cl -c -nologo -G7 -O2 link /MACHINE:X86 strip -s

MaulingMonkey

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June 27, 2005 11:35 PM

You make it sound like there's only one Microsoft Compiler.

Version?

Nemesis2k2

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June 27, 2005 11:57 PM

You're probably linking to a default library which they omitted.

Boder

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June 28, 2005 12:07 AM

It's the optimizing compiler they released in the toolkit from 2003.

Quote:Microsoft (R) 32-bit C/C++ Optimizing Compiler Version 13.10.3052 for 80x86
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation 1984-2002. All rights reserved.

The only library I'm linking to, besides the engine, is user32.lib and I just checked that they had to link to it because it uses a MessageBox.

Maybe I'm linking to libc and they are linking with MSCRT?

Boder

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June 28, 2005 12:12 AM

I can't find MSVCRT.lib anywhere, I checked the Platform SDK and the compiler lib/ folder. This might be it.

Is there an "ldd" equivalent for Windows so I can see what it's linked to?

sjelkjd

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June 28, 2005 12:26 AM

Quote:Original post by Boder
I can't get the compiler to perform as well as the people who compiled the tutorial samples for a library I'm looking at. You can see the difference in size, and I want to understand how I can get the compiler to perform as well before I move on.

THEM: 35,840 B
ME: 55,808 B

Here are the options I am using for the commands:

cl -c -nologo -G7 -O2
link /MACHINE:X86
strip -s

Make sure that you are targeting the same version of the standard lib - by default it statically links it in, but you can link to the dll(which will make your exe smaller).