DMD - Windows

[Martin Nowak]

Am 09.01.2012, 04:59 Uhr, schrieb Adam D. Ruppe  
<destructionator at gmail.com>:

> On Monday, 9 January 2012 at 00:32:51 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>>   "Zo-mah-gawd, look at the size of those D executables! D sux!"
>>
>> Which happens now.
>
> My problem with this is a shared lib actually *increases*
> the size. At best, it fools you by separating it out into
> two or three files instead of one.
>
> A better solution to the executable size problem is to
> actually make them smaller, like Andrei was doing a couple
> weeks ago. He made a huge difference just by changing a
> handful of lines to reduce unnecessary coupling in Phobos.
>
>> Note that the default with gcc is to link with the shared C runtime,  
>> and it will be expected for dmd.
>
> The big difference there is people usually already have the
> C runtime and use it for many programs. They don't actually
> have to think about installing it.
>
> Imagine how many people, especially on Linux, will now
> start asking "I built a D program, but when I run it, it
> complains that it can't find libphobos2.so", or the already
> somewhat common version mismatches that happen when you update
> one but not the other.
>
>
> Would you rather have someone complaining about a 200 kb
> executable, on an executable that doesn't work right without
> end user action?

We will have to install the libraries into a sensible place by default.
Also multiple processes using the same shared library will benefit from
memory savings.