Get rid of Bloated runtime and executable?

[Anonymous]

Hi,

so I was looking for an alternative to Microsofts compiler for my c++ applications, because I hate that my users need to install the Microsoft Visual C++ runtime to use my programs.
I heard that MinGW would be a good solution to that problem, and while searching for information I found VisualGDB.

I downloaded and installed it and created a new Windows project (.exe), which contains some basic main function with std::cout.
I set the project to “Release Mode” and pressed F5, everything worked as expected.

But when I try to run the application from the folder it says “missing libgcc_s_dw2-1.dll” and “libstdc++-6.dll”.
I found out where they are located and was shocked when I saw that they are about 1k KB.

Also the test application is 29kb, for a simple std::cout “HelloWorld” + 1KB DLLs?

That’s defenitely not what I was looking for.

I’m not used to makefiles because of Microsoft Visual Studio, do you have any suggestions how to reduce the filesize and get rid of those 2 1KB DLLs?

Thanks in advance,
Christopher

[support]

Hi,

Please try adding the following flags to CFLAGS/CXXFLAGS:
-static-libgcc -static-libstdc++
You can read more about -static-xxx flags here: https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Link-Options.html

[Author]

Posts