[dub] Size of executable

[CraigDillabaugh via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Thursday, 27 November 2014 at 13:56:19 UTC, Chris wrote:
> 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.

When you build with dub it should print out (if I remember 
correctly, its been a little while) the command it uses to build 
your code.  Is there any difference between that command and your 
'by hand' version?