Hi conitec,

what influences the size of the .exe file, that is created with publish?

In other words: How can it be, that an .exe file gets 3Mb in size, when the source code has only a total of less than 1mb in size?

EDIT: To make my problem more clear:
I have published .exe files that have 600kb with a source code (.c files) of 5kb and I have published .exe files that have 300kb with a source code (.c files) of 100kb. I don't understand how the size of the .exe is related to the size of the source code.

Compiled machine code is normally smaller than your source code. But I can imagine that defining huge global initialized arrays inflates the EXE file. Otherwise I had to look into the project to tell you what the reason is.

Oh that would explain EVERYTHING

I really have a lot of very very huge arrays that are initialized globally.
Well but it should be possible for me to avoid that using dynamic locallly created arrays that will only be as tall as I need them.

Thanks a lot so far, I'll try that out.