On 26 February 2012 21:28, Jabba Laci jabba.l...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
I'm new to D. I tried the basic Hello World program (dmd hello.d)
but it produced a 316 KB big binary. The same thing with C (gcc
hello.c) is about 9 KB. Is there a way to reduce the size of the
produced binary?
Thanks,
Laszlo
Phobos (the standard library) is currently not a shared library, due
to the fact that shared library support in D is poor at the moment,
and D itself is relatively unstable, otherwise we would have 100's of
versions of the library floating around...
The C version is small because it uses the C library and runtime,
which are dynamically linked, so aren't included in the size of the
file. Try statically linking the C version, I can't remember exactly
how to do that at the moment, and you'll find the sizes to be similar.
Also compiling with -release and -O2 would reduce the size, but I'm
not sure by how much.
