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Re:Show HN: Tiny 1k Rust binary on Windows by userbinator on Tuesday December 01, 2020 @09:36AM (#25265491)
You just need to add some compiler options; /MD should get the size down quite a bit already, then decrease the file alignment and merge sections together:

    /MD /link /align:4096 /filealign:512 /merge:.rdata=.text /merge:.data=.text
That produced a 1.5K binary, which with a custom stub should reach 1K.
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Re:Show HN: Tiny 1k Rust binary on Windows by simlevesque on Tuesday December 01, 2020 @09:43AM (#25265561)
So the point is moot, you can't have a simple 1k C example.
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Re:Show HN: Tiny 1k Rust binary on Windows by ChrisSD on Tuesday December 01, 2020 @11:10AM (#25266416)
Have you actually tried this? Merging .data into .text doesn't work. The binary doesn't run and there's this link warning:

> LINK : warning LNK4254: section '.data' (C0000040) merged into '.text' (60000020) with different attributes

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Re:Show HN: Tiny 1k Rust binary on Windows by mcountryman on Tuesday December 01, 2020 @10:57AM (#25266250)
In order to get that to 1Kb you would probably have to drop the `.idata` section and resolve syscalls from the PEB like I did.
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