How to make a very small windows service executable

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How to make a very small windows service executable

From Zero To One – I a recent stack overflow question, a user asked how to make a Delphi generated NT Service executable smaller. There was some debate, if Delphi was appropriate to do this and if the executable size it generates was to big. Let me answer those two question as I see them: The size is not to big. In today desktop environment a megabyte, or few of them don’t matter. The difference between 50K and 1MB executable just doesn’t matter. There is enough RAM and hard drive space, that very few situations need a smaller executable. And in cases when you need that, you can get to that in ...

Favorite? Off-Topic? Iztok Kacin @ 2011-04-06 15:51