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Instructions for creating the smallest possible Windows DLL
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foo.asm contents:

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Note: Use the x86 native tools command prompt which comes with Visual Studio for running the following commands:

ml /c /coff foo.asm
link /merge:.rdata=.text /merge:.data=.text /align:16 /subsystem:windows /dll /noentry foo.obj

You can add /debug /pdbstripped to the link command line to generate a .pdb, but that will increase the size of the DLL, so run the 2 commands separately if you want a tiny DLL and PDB. Note that there will be a GUID mismatch, so you will have to tell your debugger to not care about matching PDB GUIDs.

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