Unused routines still result in huge .EXE

[dano]

I was looking this weekend on how to better manage my libraries.  One thought was to include most of my common routines in a single large file and simply load that.  What I found was that this caused the .EXE file size to grow considerably.  I created a .BAS file that did nothing but a print statement and included this large library, of which zero routines were actually used.  The file size was huge compared to using a very small library, of which zero routines were used.

Is there a switch or setting that I can use that will cause unused SUBs and Functions to be excluded at compile time if they are not used?

You could try compressing the exe using upx.

https://upx.github.io/

Holy crap...I never knew this existed!  Very cool!