You can do it on Linux with dmd right now (use dmd
-defaultlib=libphobos2.so when building), but I don't know
about the Mac, and not sure about Windows either.
Well, it doesn`t look feasible with the current DMD for Mac OS X:
> cd /opt/Digital_Mars_D_2.066.0
> find . -iname '*dylib'
[nothing found]
> find . -iname '*dylib*' # please note the extra '*' at the
end
./src/druntime/src/rt/dylib_fixes.c
Reading "./src/druntime/src/rt/dylib_fixes.c" seems to indicate
that DMD has at least _some_ support for Mac OS X dynamic
libraries, but IDK how much and under which circumstances.
If anybody with a Windows installation of DMD would care to chime
in, I`d be interested to read what that side of the triangle
looks like vis-a-vis the linking and size-of-executable
issue/issues.
My thanks again to Adam.
— Abe
