How is this program, which is supposed to be the compiler, so small? The exe for VC6 is only 50KB, and this isn't much more than the minimum size of ANY exe.

Re: CL.exe by ak

ak
Fri Feb 06 05:12:56 CST 2004

On Fri, 6 Feb 2004 02:36:08 -0800, "Bonj"
<anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

//How is this program, which is supposed to be the compiler, so small? The exe for VC6 is only 50KB, and this isn't much more than the minimum size of ANY exe.

some years back i remember that the cl.exe would
load a lot of other exes like cl1.exe etc. i
reckon that nowadays with the modern approach to
everything all functionality is in DLLs instead.
You then only need a small .exe to pass the file
name to and then load the DLLs.

/ak

Re: CL.exe by anonymous

anonymous
Fri Feb 06 05:51:06 CST 2004

What are the DLLs?

Re: CL.exe by Rodrigo

Rodrigo
Fri Feb 06 06:27:58 CST 2004

You can view wich dlls cl.exe loads using Systeminternals Process Explorer
(www.systeminternals.com)

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Re: CL.exe by VManes

VManes
Sat Feb 07 00:42:39 CST 2004

Looking in the C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003\Vc7\bin
folder,

cl.exe - 84 KB C/C++ compiler driver
c1.dll - 912 KB C front end
c1xxx.dll - 2.1 MB C++ front end
c2.dll - 1.78 MB - 80x86 compiler back end
other files may also be part of the process.

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"Bonj" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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What are the DLLs?