Big executable?

[retard]

Thu, 07 Oct 2010 13:27:23 +0300, so wrote:

> On Thu, 07 Oct 2010 11:39:41 +0300, Jacob Carlborg <doob at me.com> wrote:
> 
>> On 2010-10-06 20:01, Walter Bright wrote:
>>> 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.
>>
>> Of course when Phobos is a dynamic library you would probably need to
>> distributed it as well and then you will have same size again or even
>> larger.
>>
>>
> Eh?

If the DMD/Phobos distribution doesn't provide compatible API/ABI between 
DMD/Phobos versions, the dynamic library has very little use since all 
libraries need to be distributed with the 3rd party application.