Bloated EXEs

[Enrico Maria Giordano]

Dear friends,

EXEs sizes has grown up very much lately. As an example, the following empty function

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#include "Fivewin.ch"


FUNCTION MAIN()

    RETURN NIL

generates an EXE of 3 MB! Is there any way to reduce such a big size?

I'm using latest xHarbour and latest BCC32.

EMG

[Antonio Linares]

Enrico,

Software tends to grow as it grows in complexity and in offered functionalities.

See Windows 10, OSX, Linux, they all grow the same way.

[Enrico Maria Giordano]

Enrico,

Software tends to grow as it grows in complexity and in offered functionalities.

See Windows 10, OSX, Linux, they all grow the same way.

Yes, but if one doesn't use the new features why they should be included in the EXE? I mean, probably there are some unexpected and unwanted links between FWH modules. But which?...

EMG

[Antonio Linares]

Enrico,

You may compare the map files from a previous EXE and your current EXE

[Enrico Maria Giordano]

I can't, as I haven't previous FWh releases. Can I get map files directly from the EXE?

Anyway, I have some EXEs of 2013 that are less of 2 MB in size!

EMG

[Enrico Maria Giordano]

I found the culprit! I removed xbrowse module and now I get:

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Error: Unresolved external '_HB_FUN_XBROWSENEW' referenced from E:\FWXHARB\FIVEHX.LIB|TGET
Error: Unresolved external '_HB_FUN_TXBROWS' referenced from E:\FWXHARB\FIVEHX.LIB|XBROWSER
Error: Unresolved external '_HB_FUN_XBRWSETDATASOURCE' referenced from E:\FWXHARB\FIVEHX.LIB|XBROWSER

EMG

[Willi Quintana]

Hi,
I use to compress exe upx without reducing its processing speed
Regards

[Enrico Maria Giordano]

Me too. But the EXE size is still growing up (slower).

EMG

[Antonio Linares]

Enrico,

You may try to use dummy functions to replace them

[Enrico Maria Giordano]

Enrico,

You may try to use dummy functions to replace them

Yes, but there are many others to replace...

I give up.

EMG

[nageswaragunupudi]

I guess you deleted xbrowse.obj as it has been your preference for long.
If so you have to delete xbrowser.obj too.

New thing is TGet also calls xbrowse. To remove this call, you may comment out function PopupBrowse() in the tget.prg. Next time, I may move this to xbrowse.prg.

To that extent, you need to modify TGet. Once you do that, xbrowse is totally out of your way. You save 250 KB

[Enrico Maria Giordano]

I guess you deleted xbrowse.obj as it has been your preference for long.
If so you have to delete xbrowser.obj too.

New thing is TGet also calls xbrowse. To remove this call, you may comment out function PopupBrowse() in the tget.prg. Next time, I may move this to xbrowse.prg.

To that extent, you need to modify TGet. Once you do that, xbrowse is totally out of your way. You save 250 KB

No, I haven't deleted anything. I just try to reduce the EXE size that has increased a lot lately. And I'm already using a rewritten TGet (since years) so the problem is not (only) xbrowse. That was only a sample of what probably is the root of the problem. Another big module could be menudraw.c but it can't be avoided, I suppose.

EMG

[nageswaragunupudi]

Yes, menu system grew a lot too