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Re:Show HN: Tiny 1k Rust binary on Windows by ChrisSD on Tuesday December 01, 2020 @11:18AM (#25266511)
I tried your program with MSVC using the following command:

    cl small2.c /MD /link /entry:_start /subsystem:CONSOLE kernel32.lib
It's 5kb.
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Re:Show HN: Tiny 1k Rust binary on Windows by slezyr on Tuesday December 01, 2020 @02:45PM (#25269021)
If I remember correctly you need a /nodefaultlib flag to disable stdlibs

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/build/reference/nodefau...

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Re:Show HN: Tiny 1k Rust binary on Windows by ChrisSD on Tuesday December 01, 2020 @03:31PM (#25269504)
Ok, I've just tried that but I also needed to add `/force` otherwise it complained about missing symbols. So the full compile line is:

    cl small2.c /link /force /nodefaultlib /entry:_start /subsystem:CONSOLE kernel32.lib
This gets it down to 3kb.
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