ph_.lib -- create small window command line .exe

ph_.lib -- create small windows .dll/.exe
[page last modified 2019-10-25]

For latest version go to paulhoule.com/ph_

ph_.lib is a tiny C stdlib replacement to produce smaller .exe files.
It is intended to support only a little-endian architecture (eg. X86) and
the Microsoft Visual C compiler.  32 and 64 bit versions are provided.

Only a small subset of the C stdlib is implemented.  What is
implemented is compatible with MSVC, so a build-time switch to select
either ph_ or MSVC stdlib is possible -- a design goal for testing.

fwrite() supports "text" mode output, converting 0xa to 0xd, 0xa.
Text mode input is not supported; files must be read in binary mode.

Ver 1.x are pretty much "proof of concept."  No __chkstk is
supplied; for programs making large stack allocations the caller must
add the compiler's chkstk.obj to their link list.

The target use of ph_.lib is a Windows program, windowed or console.
The program must be recompiled using ph_.h and linked against ph_.lib
(ph_.lib uses non-standard structs, #defines and calling conventions).

A typical scenario is to develop using the MSVC stdlib, then
recomplile/link against ph_.h/ph_.lib for release.  A small .exe will
typically be a twentieth of the MSVC stdlib size using ph_.lib.

Any version of MSVC 6.0 or later should work, 32 or 64 bit.

The following files are included:

	ph_.h		  C Header file
	ph_.c		  C source
	ph_.asm		  32/64-bit X86 asm (rewrite of some ph_.c funcs)
	ph_.txt		  This file
	lib\ph_.lib	  32-bit library
	lib\x64\ph_.lib	  64-bit library

Change Log
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Ver 1.4:  Add support for building a dll, and command line args (argc/argv).
10/25/19  Args are parsed using shell32.dll function CommandLineToArgvW().

Ver 1.3:  Removed ph_ prefix from all names; ph_.h/ph_.lib may no longer be
10/6/19   compiled and linked along with stdlib .h files and stdlib.lib.
	  Added a few dozen funtions.  Still no support for argc/argv.

Ver 1.2:  Added memmove,wmemmove, strcpy, wstrcpy
9/24/19   removed ?memcpy code; ?memcpy now equated to ?memmove

Ver 1.1	  Added minimal wide char support; another proof-of-concept release.
9/13/19	  New: wchar_t, wint_t, wmemcpy, wmemset, wcschr, scslen, _wfopen

Ver 1.0:  Initial release.  Only a handful of functions implemented.
9/1/19	  Not really useful; basically a proof-of-concept.