Big executable?

Walter Bright newshound2 at digitalmars.com
Wed Oct 6 11:01:10 PDT 2010


so wrote:
> On Wed, 06 Oct 2010 10:40:11 +0300, Jacob Carlborg <doob at me.com> wrote:
>> You are aware of that C is (almost always) dynamically linked with the 
>> standard and runtime library but D (usually) is not? Using D1 and 
>> Tango on Mac OS X (which supports dynamic linking of the standard 
>> library) gives an executable of the size 16 KB if I recall correctly.
>>
> 
> Which is the next thing Walter will be working on after this 64bit 
> business.

Yes, making Phobos a shared library rather than statically linking it will 
pretty much resolve this problem.


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