help understanding import libraries

[Timon Gehr]

On 08/20/2011 04:35 PM, Andrej Mitrovic wrote:
> On 8/20/11, maarten van damme<maartenvd1994 at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> Now only how come that
>> "dmd hello.d" results in a 1.70 mb application whereas
>> "dmd -c hello.d"&&  "dmd hello.obj phobos.lib" results in a 144 kb app
>
> In both cases on my system it produces a 464Kb app. You must be doing
> something wrong. :)

Unless it is a bug of some sort. Maarten, what system are you on? Also, 
can you provide your hello.d?

Have you tried to strip the executable?