[dub] Size of executable

[Kapps via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Thursday, 27 November 2014 at 09:33:49 UTC, Chris wrote:
> [Maybe this has been asked before.]
>
> 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?
>
> Another thing, I've spotted a typo in dub's[2] command line 
> help:
>
> clean [<package>]     Removes intermetiate build files and 
> cached build
>                         results
>
> It should read "intermediate" (with "d"), else it sounds like 
> the Goths in Asterix :-)
>
>
>
> [1] dmd 2.066.0
> [2] DUB version 0.9.22, built on Sep 16 2014

Dub builds with debug symbols by default. Using dub build -v will 
tell you how it invokes DMD.