Big debug exe

Jarrett Billingsley kb3ctd2 at yahoo.com
Mon May 7 18:10:23 PDT 2007


"Frank Benoit" <keinfarbton at googlemail.com> wrote in message 
news:f1ohl8$2m46$1 at digitalmars.com...
> Hm, i try to build a windows application. Without any special flags to
> dmd, its size is about 13 MB. No small, i know.
> Now i want to debug this application, and added the -g flag to the
> dsss.conf.
> The linker runs quit a while, and stops with a disk full message.
>
> The binary size after the abort was 1700MB. I wonder how big it would
> have grown, if i had more space. Is that possible? Do i need a bigger
> hard disk for my notebook? Is it a bug in the dmd linker, or possibly in
> dsss/rebuild?
>
> The compiles obj files sum to 3.8MB, all installed libs in the dsss
> directory sum up to 40 MB. The application uses tango/tangobos/swt.

1.7GB?  Sounds like a bug to me. 





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