How do I check what runtime library a static library (.lib) in Windows has linked to? I'm compiling my project with /MDd and I presume a library I'm linking to is using /MTd Multi-threaded Debug ...

I want to make a dummy Win32 EXE file that is much larger than it should be. So by default a boiler plate Win32 EXE file is 80 KB. I want a 5 MB one for testing some other utilities. The first ide...

Recently I've been trying to debug some low-level work and I could not find the crt0.S for the compiler (avr-gcc) but I did find a crt1.S (and the same with the corresponding .o files). What is th...

Consider this case: dll = LoadDLL() dll->do() ... void do() { char *a = malloc(1024); } ... UnloadDLL(dll); At this point, will the 1k allocated in the call to malloc() be available to the...

I've got a neat question here. There's a utility called reg.exe thats been shipped with Windows for quite some time. Its very handy to import .reg files from scripts, modify values from scripts, e...

I have an MFC application which I am trying to package for deployment. It seems to depend on the files 'msvcr90.dll', 'msvcp90.dll' and 'mfc90.dll'. What is the correct way to distribute these file...

Consider this scenario: An application links to 3rd party library A. A is built using MSVC 2008 and is statically linking (ie. built with /MT) to the C Runtime Library v9.0. The application is bu...

This is part of a series of at least two closely related, but distinct questions. I hope I'm doing the right thing by asking them separately. I'm trying to get my Visual C++ 2008 app to work witho...

I have read arguments on both sides about whether one should link to the C runtime library statically or dynamically in Visual Studio projects, and I'm still not entirely sure what to think. My pr...

I am reading Microsoft's CRT source code, and I can come up with the following code, where the function __initstdio1 will be executed before main() routine. The question is, how to execute some co...

Windows GUI applications written in C/C++ have 'WinMain' as an entry point (rather than 'main'). My understanding of this is that the compiler generates a 'main' function to be called by the C Runt...