[aprssig] Program bloat

[Scott Miller]

My tracker config program (otwincfg) is about 340k with MFC statically 
linked.  I think it was about 90k without.

On the other hand, the entire Tracker2 firmware is about 60k.  That 
includes the luxury of floating point emulation and sprintf().  The 
OpenTracker+ gets by on 16k, including the APRS parser.

Scott
N1VG

Lynn W. Deffenbaugh (Mr) wrote:
> Tim N9PUZ wrote:
>> The bloat, and incompatibility with older computers, comes from the 
>> tools not necessarily the programmers. Visual Studio compilers 
>> beginning with VS 2008 cannot create programs that do not have .NET 
>> 3.5 or newer libraries. With .NET 3.5 Microsoft dropped support for 
>> Windows 2000 and earlier versions of the Windows OS.
> 
> Not exactly true.  Visual Studio still supports bare-metal programming 
> with the Win32 API from C.  You do not have to use the MFC, .NET, 
> Standard Template Libraries, or anything else for that matter.  It's 
> just that a bunch of contemporary programmers don't know anything bu, 
> and it does make quite a few things a lot easier.
> 
> My APRSISCE/32 client is compiled under Visual Studio but is written in 
> straight C doing direct Win32 calls for the GUI and network 
> communications.  100% self-written code (except for the C runtime 
> library) resulting in a 520KB executable for Windows Mobile.  The Win32 
> exe is 1.4MB, but only because I'm distributing the debug version so I 
> benefit from all of the alert() calls while I'm still actively 
> developing it.
> 
> Lean-and-mean still exists, you just have to work for it!
> 
> Lynn (D) - KJ4ERJ - Author of APRSISCE for Windows Mobile and Win32
> 
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