[Issue 15218] New: DMD should link dynamically to libphobos by default

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https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15218

          Issue ID: 15218
           Summary: DMD should link dynamically to libphobos by default
           Product: D
           Version: D2
          Hardware: All
                OS: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: enhancement
          Priority: P1
         Component: dmd
          Assignee: nobody at puremagic.com
          Reporter: samjnaa at gmail.com

Since a long time (even of the latest stable release 2.068.2) DMD by default
links in libphobos statically as part of all executables produced by it. AFAICS
C and C++ compilers by default don't link in libc or libstdc++, and I don't see
why DMD (and LDC, perhaps GDC too) is different.

Apart from that this is a needlessly wasteful utilization of user disk space
(though today hard/soft memory may be considered cheap), to the person newly
testing the D waters, it makes it appear as if even a Hello World in D is much
much more bloated than in C/C++/<insert the name of another
compiled-but-by-default-dynamically-linked language here>...

Therefore please make it so that DMD (and thus hopefully LDC and GDC too) links
to libphobos dynamically and not statically by default. If any rare need makes
it so that somebody needs a statically linked executable, presumably that would
not be too hard to achieve.

Note: I *don't* think this is a dup of bug 987 which was for D1...

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