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A stand-alone splash screen written in MASM x86, MASM x64, and C++

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Reduce C++ output executable

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Problem:
The release output executable from the C++ project is around 225 KB!

Tasks:
Tweak the compiler and linker arguments in order to reduce the file size.

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This was solved in commit 6a9e9ea.

The reason being the linking of the C run-time library in Configuration Properties → C/C++ → Code Generation → Runtime Library. When the flag /MT is set, the output executable includes the run-time, whereas the flag /MD does not include the run-time in the executable, but relies on the user having installed the MSVCRversionnumber.dll.

More detailed information can be found in Microsoft's documentation.