Why is the exe so big?

[Lord Apocalypse]

Just noticed this after compiling the release binary. I don't get why its 68mb compared to what I compiled at 3mb. Are the releases built in debug mode?

[cybersphinx]

The releases are statically linked.

[Lord Apocalypse]

even so it shouldn't be THAT large

[vexed]

They also contain debug info so the crash handler can give meaningful output.

[Lord Apocalypse]

Please tell me that will eventually get stripped out

[Lord Apocalypse]

On another note, what preprocessor directive does that require and what extra libs if any?

[vexed]

You can have release builds + debug info, I don't recall the switch to do that though.
No extra libs needed.

And no, it won't get stripped out, since we want the crash handler to have good crash dumps, that is easy to parse.

[Lord Apocalypse]

The VC10 solution includes _debug so that could be it.. but even compiling a debug build the total exe size was 5mb.. Odd that it can go that high, will change more libs to static and check how the crosscopile is handled to see whats inflating it.