Quote Originally Posted by Eri523 View Post
Did you try that with dynamic linking to MFC? This pretty sure wouldn't run on Win2k either, but I would be interested in the release EXE file size.
In that case it becomes 6.50K, but it won't start without "MSVCR100.DLL" on my XP or Vista without VS 2010 installed. And I'm sure there're more dependencies to it so if you add all of them up it will total to 1.5MB or even worse. On Win2K though it still results in the same "not a valid win32 application" error.

On the side note, I link my code statically since otherwise you'll have to install DLLs anyway, which is a pain in the neck by itself. So why doing it?

OK, one more test. The same console app with MFC compiled on MS VS 2008 (without SP1) weighs only 208K and does run on Windows 2000. So go figure what MS is trying to sell us?

So, guys, don't rush to convert your projects. It may come with a caveat...