how big are everyones average compiled files? i made a hello world one that was like 400k and the other couple i made were like 1.20mb and the source for them was about 1.25k. is this normal or am i doing something wrong?

My hello world file was only 3 KB, if you're talkin about a console app. You use dev C++ and it gets that big? It sounds more like a game maker file to me :P .... post the source code

Don't bother posting the source code. You aren't doing anything wrong. The Dev-C++ IDE uses the Mingw compiler, and its compiled executables are bigger than ones compiled with other ones. However, make sure you are not compiling with debugging information.

I don't know, 1.2 megs is way to big for a console app. exactly what is it?

It could be because of the headers used. Some headers are quite large. For example, my win32 applications are MUCH smaller than my console applications. I think it's because of #include <iostream>, but it could be another header.

my iostream takes up this much memory*Puts his fingers really close together*. I dunno whats different bout it :P

Like I said, it could be a different header.

It could be stdlib.h, that's pretty big

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i made a hello world one that was like 400k

That's the average size of a small console application compiled with the Mingw compiler. win32 applications are much smaller.

a test program I just made was less than 100kb

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a test program I just made was less than 100kb

What compiler are you using?

Bloodshed Dev-C++ of course. :)

Well, then, what did it do? Was it a console application or a win32 application?