Tiny executables

[Vladimir Panteleev via digitalmars-d-ldc]

On Friday, 19 September 2014 at 08:07:51 UTC, David Nadlinger via 
digitalmars-d-ldc wrote:
> There is pragma(LDC_no_moduleinfo) [1], though, which might 
> still get you a long ways.

It did, thanks.

>> 3. Do I understand correctly that LDC uses COFF object files, 
>> however uses gcc/ld for linking? Meaning that MinGW uses COFF 
>> files on Windows as well?
>
> OTOH, yes, MinGW also emits object files as COFF. If you are 
> only interested in Win64 you could also try to use the 
> MSVC-based toolchain.

The MS linker seemed to work OK for my very simple cases.

> Stripping unused sections actually works with link.exe, in 
> contrast to MinGW's COFF linker.

For some reason the MS linker left the .ctors section as-is in 
the resulting EXE, but pragma(LDC_no_moduleinfo) took care of 
that.