On 1/8/2012 3:12 PM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
On Sunday, 8 January 2012 at 22:52:17 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
Once Phobos works as a shared lib, I think we should switch to that as the
default.
Please, no. That would mean standalone executables won't work
by default.
People who distribute apps will be more sophisticated users, and will be able to
set a flag to static link.
I guarantee you that shared should be the default, as otherwise newbies will
compile with D and:
"Zo-mah-gawd, look at the size of those D executables! D sux!"
Which happens now. Note that the default with gcc is to link with the shared C
runtime, and it will be expected for dmd.
