On Thursday, 27 November 2014 at 13:56:19 UTC, Chris wrote:
On Thursday, 27 November 2014 at 12:29:03 UTC, Gary Willoughby
wrote:
On Thursday, 27 November 2014 at 09:33:49 UTC, Chris wrote:
I usually use dub to create and build projects. I built one
of the projects with dub and then by hand with dmd[1] passing
all the files etc. Turned out that the executable built with
dub was 1.4 MB whereas the one built by hand was only 807 kB.
Why is that?
dub compiles and links every file in the source folder whether
it's used or not. Whereas with dmd or rdmd you only compile
and link the files you actually use.
I compiled the exact same files. I excluded those I didn't need
in the dub configuration like so:
"excludedSourceFiles": [...]
But dub's executable is bigger.
When you build with dub it should print out (if I remember
correctly, its been a little while) the command it uses to build
your code. Is there any difference between that command and your
'by hand' version?