On Saturday, 17 October 2015 at 13:54:12 UTC, Shriramana Sharma
wrote:
Marc Schütz wrote:
Yes, it's still linked statically by default, at least with
DMD. I don't know why this wasn't changed yet, I just tried
linking against libphobos.so and it worked. The resulting
binary is then down to 13 Kb, after stripping.
Wow that's nice to hear! Can you outline the steps to link any
given .d file against libphobos.so?
Unfortunately, I haven't found a switch that makes DMD use
dynamic linking. Maybe I just missed it... So, you have to do it
step by step:
1) Use the `-c` switch to make the compiler output:
dmd -O -inline -c foo.d
This generates `foo.o`.
2) Link by calling `gcc`:
gcc -o foo foo.o -lphobos2
This calls `ld` with the right options and results in a binary
`foo`.
3) Optionally, strip the binary to make it smaller:
strip foo
