MessageBox .exe is HUGE! why?

[scr0p]

Here is my code, This program is huge, its at 104K, Is that normal? What is the smallest method to display a MessageBox with 'test' as body and 'title' as the title

#define WIN32_LEAN_AND_MEAN

#include <windows.h>
#include <windowsx.h>
#include <stdio.h>

int WINAPI WinMain(HINSTANCE hinstance, HINSTANCE hprevinstance, LPSTR lpcmdline, int ncmdshow)
{
	MessageBox(NULL,"Test","title",MB_OK);
	return(0);
}

Can someone tell me what WIN32_LEAN_AND_MEAN is? and what windowsx.h is? I copied this from a really old C/C++ gaming book.

[SteveCRM]

if in VC++

Menu > Build > Set Active Configuration

chose release

[sunburnt]

Plus if you're just displaying the messagebox you don't need the windowsx or stdio headers.

WIN32_LEAN_AND_MEAN removes lesser used references from the windows.h header, including winsock2 if i recall correctly. Somewhere in windows.h you'll find this:

#ifndef WIN32_LEAN_AND_MEAN
   // include various other headers
#endif

[scr0p]

Thanks!! the release worked, its 20.5K now




With ASM I get the msgbox to be about 2.5K, Can C++ do smaller than 20.5K? It is small but it is very big for just a msgbox

[SteveCRM]

I think parksie's gotten some insane number, but I think thats a pretty good size. You can make a much larger program and it will still be around that size

[parksie]

I hit 4K which is about the smallest you'll reasonably get for a C program.

Note that this is for C, not C++. When you do C++ you have to take a lot of other things into account (when you take out the runtime library, you have to do all the class initialisation yourself, which isn't fun).