Dynamic D Library

[Nick Sabalausky]

"BCS" <ao at pathlink.com> wrote in message 
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> Reply to teo,
>
>> Well, to some extent this will do the job, but at some point you would
>> need to extract some stuff and put it in libraries, so that it can be
>> reused by other applications. Think about an application which
>> consists of several executables which work together and should share
>> common stuff. Wouldn't you extract it into a library?
>>
>
> Yes, as a static .lib type library that is statically linked in as part of 
> the .exe.

Exactly, and it doesn't even have to be a compiled .lib, it could just be a 
source-library. I do that all the time. I really don't see any reason to 
think that modularity and code-reuse would require linking to be dynamic. At 
least certainly not in the general case.

> If the size of the code duplication becomes an issue, I'll be to busy 
> worrying about other things (like not being able to fit my code and data 
> in a 32bit address space).
>