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Bloated EXEs
Posted: Sat May 28, 2016 08:59 AM

Dear friends,

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

#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

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Antonio Linares

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Re: Bloated EXEs
Posted: Sat May 28, 2016 09:16 AM

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.

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Enrico Maria Giordano

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Re: Bloated EXEs
Posted: Sat May 28, 2016 09:38 AM

Antonio Linares wrote: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

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Re: Bloated EXEs
Posted: Sat May 28, 2016 09:47 AM

Enrico,

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

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Enrico Maria Giordano

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Re: Bloated EXEs
Posted: Sat May 28, 2016 10:35 AM

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

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Enrico Maria Giordano

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Re: Bloated EXEs
Posted: Sat May 28, 2016 12:37 PM

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

Code (fw): Select all Collapse

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

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Willi Quintana

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Re: Bloated EXEs
Posted: Sat May 28, 2016 01:00 PM

Hi,
I use to compress exe upx without reducing its processing speed
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Enrico Maria Giordano

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Re: Bloated EXEs
Posted: Sat May 28, 2016 01:34 PM

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

EMG

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Antonio Linares

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Re: Bloated EXEs
Posted: Sat May 28, 2016 03:23 PM

Enrico,

You may try to use dummy functions to replace them

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Enrico Maria Giordano

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Re: Bloated EXEs
Posted: Sat May 28, 2016 03:30 PM

Antonio Linares wrote:Enrico,

You may try to use dummy functions to replace them

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

I give up.

EMG

Enrico Maria Giordano

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http://www.emagsoftware.it
http://www.emagsoftware.it/emgmusic
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nageswaragunupudi

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Re: Bloated EXEs
Posted: Sat May 28, 2016 04:26 PM

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

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G. N. Rao.

Hyderabad, India

Enrico Maria Giordano

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Re: Bloated EXEs
Posted: Sat May 28, 2016 04:55 PM

nageswaragunupudi wrote: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

Enrico Maria Giordano

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nageswaragunupudi

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Re: Bloated EXEs
Posted: Sat May 28, 2016 04:57 PM

Yes, menu system grew a lot too

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G. N. Rao.

Hyderabad, India

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