Re: Static linking on Windows

[Bruce Sherwood <Bruce_Sherwood ncsu edu>]

In fact, Robert Pearce pointed me to Dependency Walker (I had failed to 
ask the right question of Google to find it myself), and it did a great 
job of identifying everything. In fact, I passed it a .pyd file and it 
happily analyzed it. Thanks to both of you for pointing me to this.

There remains pending for me the fact that using gtkmm instead of 
Windows-specific windowing code increases my binary from 4 MB to 40 MB. 
It was suggested that one can strip the dll's, but I don't know how to 
do that. I installed gtkmm etc. from Windows binary downloads.

Bruce Sherwood

Alan Ott wrote:
> Robert Pearce wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 7 Nov 2007, Bruce Sherwood <Bruce_Sherwood ncsu edu> wrote :
> >  
> >
> > > Is there a more intelligent way to identify which dll's I need?
> > >    
> >
> > There are tools available to analyse the DLL set used by a Windows 
> > application. I can't remember which one I used but I suspect a google 
> > would find it (I think I found a link on the InnoSetup web site, 
> > actually).
> >  
>
> The old school way to do it was to use Dependency Walker ( 
> http://www.dependencywalker.com/ ), and that will work well for stuff 
> built with VC6, 7, 7.1, and GCC. It will always show an error (at least 
> on stuff that I build) for stuff built with VC8, and it will silently 
> ignore some problems on VC8 stuff as well. YMMV. Note that Dependency 
> Walker will only tell you stuff that is required for your program to 
> _start_. Like Murray said earler, Gtk loads some DLLs (plugins) at 
> runtime, so it will not show those.
>
> I am not aware of a newer or better solution for this (and I've spent a 
> fair amount of time fighting with VC8 stuff linked dynamically with the 
> MS C libraries). If someone has a better idea, feel free to correct me.
>
> Alan.
>
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