OpenCV : Build with lesser features

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I did a new build of OpenCV and just built seleted lib's and added them to the project. But still the size is the same. The lib's i added to project are:

libjasper.lib libjpeg.lib libpng.lib libtiff.lib zlib.lib opencv_core248.lib opencv_highgui248.lib opencv_imgproc248.lib opencv_objdetect248.lib opencv_photo248.lib opencv_video248.lib vfw32.lib

I am using Visual Studio 2012. Is there any project settings that needs to be changed?

For some reason, it still seems to link all the lib's. Even though the "staticlib" directory only contains the above mentioned lib's.

The reason why i want to keep the size small is because that way whenever i come up with an update for the customer, they don't have to download much from the server. This is a limitation.

If you did not link to libraries that need to be included, and they are not on your system, then you cannot have them added right? However, I do think that the largest part is the core library. Besides that you are using the most heavy libs i know like objectdetect and imgproc. Probably the difference with the others is not that large. Are you sure that 6MB is pure from OpenCV? 6MB isn't much to download these days I think ... most software updates range between 100MB - 1GB. I guess you are doing just fine.