Re: [Tinycc-devel] Re: Simple Registry Key Create and Write. Multi Errors in Tiny C

[KHMan]

On 8/10/2010 10:10 PM, ED GROSSHEIM wrote:
> 8-52 am  08-10-10
> Kein,
> In this case I am trying to have a small ".exe starter", all it
> will do is start console applications in a custom console window
> (applications produced by full blown compilers).

Use MinGW, it's mature and used by a lot of people. A "hello, 
world!" program using puts(), stripped, is only a shade over 8KB 
in size.

tcc is small, but since I would call it an experimental compiler, 
things are more likely to go wrong. Let me repeat, tcc is an 
*experimental* *compiler*, it is not a production compiler. So you 
need to be able to self-troubleshoot if you use tcc. Besides, 
tcc's code generation is primitive and lacks most optimizations. 
Your executable size will be smaller with MinGW.

> When I added the registry functions to my CreateProcess file, the
> .exe size went from 10 kb to 30 kb. I want my ".exe starter" to be
> small.

No problem I think. I did a UTF-8 file I/O library for Lua, it 
came up to a 44KB DLL, stripped. And there's always upx, but I 
prefer the fastest possible start time and have stopped using that 
too.

> I will use it all the time for console apps, where I want to
> control font and font size.
> [snip]

That said, if you are not distributing whatever you are doing 
commercially, I would suggest that you run a Unix-line command 
line environment like Cygwin. Saves tons of trouble, best thing 
ever for multi-platform people. Also, MinGW is going to have a 
nice console/terminal program soon too, so that is an alternative. 
This is relevant if you don't need Win32-specific console features.

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Cheers,
Kein-Hong Man (esq.)
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia