Re: Why would release static lib be significantly larger then my debug build?

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I have a VS2005 static library project of unmanaged C++ code. When I
compile and link, I noticed that my debug lib is 2668K and the release
build is over 16K. Why would release static lib be significantly larger
than my debug build?

It's not by the figures you've shown - unless you meant to say the
release build is 16K larger than the debug version?

Release is using /MD and Debug /MDD

Should that be /MDd ?

Debug information is disabled in release, NDEBUG is defined,
optimization is set to speed, browse information is set to none.

You may see a difference if you set the optimisation to size rather
than speed.

Dave
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