On Friday, 31 May 2013 at 14:48:12 UTC, Regan Heath wrote:
You will get a similar size (or greater) if you statically link the stdc library.
That's not necessarily true because static linking only pulls functions that are actually used by the program....
even though I just tried gcc hello.c -static, and got a beefy 600 KB binary out of it, so maybe it is more intertwined than I thought!
Eventually D will support dynamically linking to Phobos.
I think it is worth remembering that this doesn't actually reduce the size. In fact, it will increase it since the dynamic linked library needs all functions. The phobos.dll will be probably two or three megabytes, and if you are distributing a D app, you'll still have to offer that file... and now have the hassle of dependency management.
Dynamic linking might look less scary when your ls sees 20 KB instead of 600 but it doesn't really change anything substantial.
