On Sunday, 3 July 2022 at 08:15:38 UTC, frame wrote:
Are you sure?
100%, just try yourself.
You import `testFunc` as normal import, the compiler ignores `pragma(lib)` - that's only for the linker which will ignore it too since the symbol is already in your executable.
Why would the symbol be defined in the executable? `dimedll.d` isn't compiled into the executable.
A static linked function should generate a very small lib-file and yours look too big to me.
The code is using Phobos std.stdio.writeln templates, so the ~20 KB for both exe and DLL are to be expected and IMO absolutely acceptable.
I don't know about LDC but with DMD I struggle with static linked DLLs because the library generated does not link to the DLL. To get right results, I need to pass the linker flag -`-L=/IMPLIB` (or `-L=/DLL` for 64bit) to generate a lib-file that is really linked to the DLL later.
DMD's DLL support is waaay behind LDC's, especially once stuff gets more interesting than trivial examples.
