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