Here is a not-in-depth look at what's involved in trying to generate byte-for byte binaries on msvc: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1180852/deterministic-b

Here is a not-in-depth look at what's involved in trying to generate byte-for byte binaries on msvc: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1180852/deterministic-builds-under-windows http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1180852/deterministic-bui... In short, if you ignore certain things when comparing binaries and make sure you build things on absolute path of the same length(!), you can tell binaries are functionally equivalent.