A difference between debug build with gcc and vc++

[miwarre]

I'm building using both gcc and vc++.
When building formextractor example in debug mode gcc executable is 1 114 050 bytes and vc++ one is 75 776 bytes. When running, gcc executable runs ok but vc++ one gives error about not being able to find msvcr90d.dll file. It looks like gcc links with this statically whereas vc++ links dynamically.

How can I configure both builds in creator to have the same behavior in respect to linking to run-time libraries?

Hi,

Possibly it is not related to libraries. By default, vc++ does NOT include debug info in the executable but in an external <appname>.pdb file. This probably accounts for (the major part of) the difference in size.

The error about msvcr90.dll is probably another matter; I may be wrong, but I don't think that gcc needs this library at all; that's why it does not complain. On the other hand, vc++ does need it and you may not have it in your path.

The compiler option for statically linking the runtime library is /MT (/MTd for debug version), while the option for using DLL is /MD (/MDd for debug version).

Hope it helps.

Miwarre