Phobos and Tango deep dependancies

[Gilles G.]

I tried to compile a simple hello, world with visual studio 2005 express and there are only 4 DLL dependancies...

The program for tango is:

import tango.io.Stdout;

int main()
{
    Stdout("Hello, world!").newline;
    return 0;
}

And the dependancies are listed below:
 * 10 Always loaded DLLs:
MPR.DLL, ADVAPI32.DLL, GDI32.DLL, KERNEL32.DLL, MSVCRT.DLL, NTDLL.DLL, RPCRT4.DLL, SHELL32.DLL, SHLWAPI.DLL, USER32.DLL

 * 108 Delay loaded DLLs:
ACTIVEDS.DLL, ADSLDPC.DLL, ADVPACK.DLL, APPHELP.DLL, ATL.DLL, AUTHZ.DLL, BROWSEUI.DLL, CABINET.DLL, CDFVIEW.DLL, CERTCLI.DLL, CFGMGR32.DLL, CLUSAPI.DLL, COMCTL32.DLL, COMDLG32.DLL, CREDUI.DLL, CRYPT32.DLL, CRYPTUI.DLL, CSCDLL.DLL, DBGHELP.DLL, DEVMGR.DLL, DHCPCSVC.DLL, DNSAPI.DLL, DUSER.DLL, EFSADU.DLL, ESENT.DLL, GDIPLUS.DLL, HLINK.DLL,HNETCFG.DLL ,IMAGEHLP.DLL, IMGUTIL.DLL, IMM32.DLL, INETCOMM.DLL, IPHLPAPI.DLL,
 LINKINFO.DLL,LZ32.DLL ,MFC42U.DLL ,MLANG.DLL , MOBSYNC.DLL, MPRAPI.DLL, MPRUI.DLL, MSASN1.DLL, MSGINA.DLL, MSHTML.DLL, MSI.DLL, MSIMG32.DLL, MSJAVA.DLL, MSLS31.DLL, MSOERT2.DLL, MSRATING.DLL, MSSIGN32.DLL, MSVCP60.DLL, MSWSOCK.DLL, NETAPI32.DLL, NETCFGX.DLL, NETMAN.DLL, NETPLWIZ.DLL,
 NETRAP.DLL, NETSHELL.DLL, NETUI0.DLL, NETUI1.DLL, NETUI2.DLL, NTDSAPI.DLL, NTLANMAN.DLL, ODBC32.DLL, OLE32.DLL, OLEACC.DLL, OLEAUT32.DLL,  OLEDLG.DLL, OLEPRO32.DLL, POWRPROF.DLL, PRINTUI.DLL, PSAPI.DLL, QUERY.DLL, RASAPI32.DLL, RASDLG.DLL, RASMAN.DLL, REGAPI.DLL, RTUTILS.DLL,  SAMLIB.DLL, SCECLI.DLL, SECUR32.DLL, SETUPAPI.DLL, SHDOCVW.DLL, SHSVCS.DLL, TAPI32.DLL, URLMON.DLL, USERENV.DLL, USP10.DLL, UTILDLL.DLL, UXTHEME.DLL, VERSION.DLL, W32TOPL.DLL, WINHTTP.DLL, WININET.DLL, WINMM.DLL, WINSCARD.DLL, WINSPOOL.DRV, WINSTA.DLL, WINTRUST.DLL, LDAP32.DLL, WMI.DLL, WS2_32.DLL, WS2HELP.DLL, WSOCK32.DLL, WTSAPI32.DLL, WZCDLG.DLL, WZCSAPI.DLL, WZCSVC.DLL


This may be compared to phobos : 5 always loaded DLLs and 112 delay loaded DLLs.

--
Gilles

Lars Ivar Igesund Wrote:

> Gilles G. wrote:
> 
> > Hello all,
> > I noticed that using the phobos library on windows make the executables
> > depend on a huge list of delay loaded DLLs and also 5 "always loaded" DLLs
> > (the list is below). I also tried the Tango library and the situation
> > seems to be even worse...
> 
> I am no Windows guru, but aren't all those system DLL's? You will be hard
> pushed to avoid those when using the console. As for Tango, could you
> please post a list and the relevant program? Feel free to use the Tango
> forums, or create a ticket if it seems to be bug in Tango. Using the same
> compiler, Tango shouldn't have more dependencies than Phobos for the same
> functionality.
> 
> -- 
> Lars Ivar Igesund
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