[dub] Size of executable

[Chris via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Thursday, 27 November 2014 at 12:29:03 UTC, Gary Willoughby 
wrote:
> On Thursday, 27 November 2014 at 09:33:49 UTC, Chris wrote:
>> I usually use dub to create and build projects. I built one of 
>> the projects with dub and then by hand with dmd[1] passing all 
>> the files etc. Turned out that the executable built with dub 
>> was 1.4 MB whereas the one built by hand was only 807 kB. Why 
>> is that?
>
> dub compiles and links every file in the source folder whether 
> it's used or not. Whereas with dmd or rdmd you only compile and 
> link the files you actually use.

I compiled the exact same files. I excluded those I didn't need 
in the dub configuration like so:

"excludedSourceFiles": [...]

But dub's executable is bigger.