> Vincent Snijders wrote:
>> An extra handicap for the linker is the fact that the windows unit,
>> which is rather large is always smartlinked, resulting in (I estimate)
>> ten thouands of object files (archived in the .a file). You probably
>> won't have this amount of .o files in c programs.
>
> Can we seperate the windows unit in a unit that has function
> declarations that all versions of windows have, and one that only
> WinNT/2k/others have? Or is this not practical ?

You'll get an executable that has a lot of DLL dependencies. And that is
therefor also a lot larger.



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