On Thursday, February 02, 2012 18:34:34 H. S. Teoh wrote: > On Thu, Feb 02, 2012 at 05:33:49PM -0800, Jonathan M Davis wrote: > [...] > > > I would point out that druntime is bundled with libphobos.a. I > > wouldn't expect libdruntime to be on the system. > > [...] > > Are there any *good* reasons why druntime and libphobos are not > dynamically linked? In the long run, we need to support that, since > otherwise D binaries will be unnecessarily large and the OS won't be > able to optimize memory usage by sharing library images with multiple > processes.
Because dmd does not yet support shared libraries on Linux. - Jonathan M Davis
