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.lib and .dll file size difference on visual studio and cmake

I followed https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/build/walkthrough-creating-and-using-a-dynamic-link-library-cpp?view=msvc-170 to create the dll in debug mode and did the same using cmake. cmake_minim...
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visual-studio

dll

cmake

lib

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Without seeing the full command line passed by the IDE to the compiler and linker, it's fairly hard difficult to answer the question with certainty. The difference in size in the modules could be down...
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.dll vs .dll with exports, what's the difference?

On Visual Studio 2019 create new project shows the following: Dynamic-Link Library (DLL) Dynamic-Link Library with exports (DLL) Before I though we have static libraries and dynamic libraries. So w...
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c++

windows

visual-studio

dll

lib

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Maybe this helps: https://edwardhalferty.com/2020/08/29/difference-between-dynamic-link-library-with-exports-and-dynamic-link-library-in-visual-studio/ Extracting the essential info: The major differ...
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Why is the import library .lib bigger than the .dll?

In a cmake project that generates a .dll and corresponding .lib I just noticed the .lib is bigger than the .dll. How is that possible? Isn't the .lib supposed to be much smaller than the .dll? debug ....
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c++

windows

opencv

cmake

lib

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I just noticed the .lib is bigger than the .dll. How is that possible? Simple math. Each export in the DLL's .edata section consists of the symbol name, its 32-bit relative virtual address (RVA), an...
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How to include non Vcpkg on CMakeLists.txt?

So I have a project which depends on opencv, which is installed with vcpkg. The project is build with cmake. CMakeLists.txt cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.19.1) project(mylib) set (CMAKE_CXX_STAND...
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opencv

cmake

lib

vcpkg

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Use <PackageName>_DIR variable pointing to where the config file is located. It works for any library which comes with a config file. For you it would look like this: set(OpenCV_DIR "C:/ope...
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