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Small application / exe

Gavin Williams · 2012-01-12T01:27:55

This is a follow-on from a question i posted on stackoverflow. I'm looking at how demo coders prepare small applications, with the intention to make the smallest SlimDX application that I can. I managed to make a window application using C++ with a size of 4096 bytes. But there doesn't seem to be a way to include a static library into C# code, and my goal is to create a single file package. Using Assembly I have created a window application with a size of 2,560 bytes, but I haven't yet looked at making a library using assembly. And I would have the same problem there being unable to incorporate it into a C# Assembly. When I create the smallest C# application that I can (code following) I get an exe size of 6,144 bytes. Is this the smallest C# application that one can build ? I don't really know anything about CLR under the hood, except that it creates like a CLR-machine language version of the app that is compiled into machine code (first run or every run). Does anyone have any ready hints at the issues I'm facing, even just some reading material on solving this problem would be good. I have seen SlimDX demos but they are large (>100k), seemingly the only small demos are written using C++. but certainly small SlimDX apps can be build, I'm just not sure how small ? namespace CreateWindowUsingMiniWindowLib { static class Program { static int Main() { return 42; } } }

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Started by Gavin Williams January 10, 2012 05:32 AM

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bubu LV

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January 12, 2012 01:27 AM

Well compared to C/C++/native world, that is more like embedding dll file in your exe file, and then loading this dll file from memory, instead of disk. Of course that also works, not really efficient, but works.
Using Mono.Linker/il-repack/ilmerge is much better, imho.

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