On Friday, 27 May 2022 at 13:40:25 UTC, Alexander Zhirov wrote:
I'm trying to compile a file that weighs 3 kilobytes. I'm also linking a self-written dynamic library. I don't understand why the resulting executable file is so huge? After all, all libraries are present:
I'd take a look with IDA or hydra to check the details (maybe something is statically linked after all, that should be visible by inspecting the names view) but one thing to understand in a first time is that
1. even if druntime and phobos are dynamic libraries all the template instances are generated in your binary. 2. use of some module has for effect to create huge static tables. I think to all the UTF stuff and also std regex.
