I've been attempting to shrink the size of my file for the past week or so, during that time I have discovered some compiler options that could drastically shrink the size of my file. However, due to my static implementation of libcurl, my file is still around 2.3mb; I would like to change that. I have searched other thread on various forums and found that on linux you could build the libcurl library with HTTP only enabled, however, my app is to run specifically on Windows. I am using the CodeBlocks IDE with the MinGW Compiler and these are my configuration settings:
I have tried removing some of those linked libraries, however, that just results in compiler errors.
libcurl supports a lot of protocols, e.g. http, https, ftp, etc(See libcurl website for full list), so try to rebuild the libcurl library after removing unnecessary protocols and keeping only those which you are using in your project. This will reduce size of libcurl significantly.