Compiler: Size of generated executable file

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 1/12/10 23:40, Walter Bright wrote:
> Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
>> I hope this is not a permanent situation. Shared libraries (not
>> necessarily DLLs) help reduce the memory usage of all the programs on
>> the system that use the same libraries, and the footprint of the
>> binaries.
>
> That would be reasonable once we can get libphobos installed on linux
> distributions. Right now, it's easier for users to not have to deal with
> version hell for shared libraries. Static linking of phobos does not
> impair using D, so it is a lower priority.
>
>
>> The "DLL hell" versioning problem AFAIK is only on Windows,
>
> My experience is different. There are two C shared libraries in common
> use on Linux. If I link dmd to one, one group of dmd users gets annoyed,
> if I link with the other, the other half gets annoyed. There's no decent
> solution.
>
>
>> My understanding of the "no shared library" problem of D was not that
>> it was an anti-dll-hell feature but actually an unsolved problem with
>> sharing the GC. If you are saying that even if someone solves the GC
>> sharing problem that D still will produce mostly static exes, you
>> might as well take D out back and shoot it now. I don't see any
>> businesses using a language that is 15 years behind the curve in
>> library production. If it were a problem that couldn't be solved, then
>> there would be lots of languages that have that problem.
>
> It's true that nobody has spent the effort to do this. Anyone is welcome
> to step up and work on it.

Hasn't that already been solved with ddl: 
http://www.dsource.org/projects/ddl/

>> On all your other points, I agree that installs these days are bigger
>> more because of media than binaries. I do have a problem with that in
>> some cases. I don't want my scanner driver software to install 500MB
>> of crap that I will never use when all I want to do is scan documents
>> with a simple interface. I don't need "skins" for my word processor or
>> help videos on how to use my mouse. Just install the shit that does
>> the work, and leave the rest of my hard drive alone :)
>
> Heh, dlls won't solve that problem. I upgraded Nero to support a new dvd
> drive, and what the heck, a 20Mb install turned into - 360Mb !!