Does -profile need the D runtime?

[Stefan Koch]

On Saturday, 18 May 2019 at 16:35:44 UTC, Robert M. Münch wrote:
> I want to profile my windows app which has a WinMain(). One of 
> the first statements in WinMain() within a try{} is:
>
> Runtime.initialize();
>
> But when I compile my app with -profile, it crashes on entry of 
> WinMain(). Looks like this function is instrumented with code, 
> that might need the D runtime. Is this the case?
>
> Is there a way to flag specific functions as "don't profile"?

yes profiling does relay on druntime being present.

There is currently no such thing as "don't profile"