On Friday, 15 November 2013 at 15:27:45 UTC, Jacek Furmankiewicz
wrote:
One of the nice features of Go is that when you compile an app,
it pulls in ALL the dependencies (i.e. the full SDK + all
libraries your app depends on) and generates a single binary
(around 2 MB for a Hello World app).
This is extremely useful for deployment purposes, since it is
so straightforward to just copy the app to multiple servers
without having to worry if every one of them has all the
required dependencies installed / updated, etc.
Does D offer something similar (maybe via some dmd switches)?
For example, If I am creating a vibe.d app, would I need to
deploy the vibe.d libraries separately with my app on all the
servers in production?
Thanks
Jacek
D, like many languages compiled to native code (C, C++) supports
dynamically loaded libraries (.dll and .so files) as an option.
You have an option to use DLLs (in which case you'll have to
deploy them) but it's not a requirement - you can build just like
in Go as long as you don't use the DDL feature.
You should check vibe.d build options whenever it's possible to
build it without DLL dependency.
