I recently compiled gdc 0.17 for both gcc 3.4.5 and gcc 4.0.2. Everything works fine, and I've no issues compiling with it, except for the fact that anything it compiles is over 1.2mb in size. I've tried with both vers of gcc and got the same behavior, both yield exes ranging  from 1.2mb - 1.5mb. It only seems to be gdc, gcc and g++ compile things just fine. Has anyone encountered this before?

How are you compiling it ?  Compiling a simple hello world with gdc cywgin for me , after stripping , I get 138KB application.  With debug info its 200K.




"Kevin Tardif" <kiyoka@gmail.com> wrote in message news:dsvtgh$1jom$1@digitaldaemon.com...
> I recently compiled gdc 0.17 for both gcc 3.4.5 and gcc 4.0.2.
> Everything works fine, and I've no issues compiling with it, except for
> the fact that anything it compiles is over 1.2mb in size. I've tried
> with both vers of gcc and got the same behavior, both yield exes ranging
>   from 1.2mb - 1.5mb. It only seems to be gdc, gcc and g++ compile
> things just fine. Has anyone encountered this before?

GCC 3.4.4, GDC 0.12

In fact just for fun heres a exe size comparison.  Check out C at a tiny 3KB!

D
Exe size: 199KB
Stripped : 138KB
==
import std.stdio;
int main () { writefln("C++ is ridicoulously complex"); return 0;}


C++
Exe size: 466KB
Stripped : 270KB
==
#include <iostream>
int main () { std::cout << "C++ is ridiculously complex"; return 0;}

C
Exe size: 9KB
Stripped: 3KB
==
#include "stdio.h"
int main () { printf("C++ is ridiculously complex"); return 0;}







"Charles" <noone@nowhere.com> wrote in message news:dt5j2s$ohl$1@digitaldaemon.com...
> How are you compiling it ?  Compiling a simple hello world with gdc cywgin for me , after stripping , I get 138KB application.  With debug info its 200K.
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> "Kevin Tardif" <kiyoka@gmail.com> wrote in message news:dsvtgh$1jom$1@digitaldaemon.com...
> > I recently compiled gdc 0.17 for both gcc 3.4.5 and gcc 4.0.2.
> > Everything works fine, and I've no issues compiling with it, except for
> > the fact that anything it compiles is over 1.2mb in size. I've tried
> > with both vers of gcc and got the same behavior, both yield exes ranging
> >   from 1.2mb - 1.5mb. It only seems to be gdc, gcc and g++ compile
> > things just fine. Has anyone encountered this before?
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Hmm, I'm using mingw gdc. Compiling without an specific switches yields this size. I've tried various optimization switches (-g0, -finline, -frelease, etc) thinking something was messed up and it would help reduce the size, but it doesn't do much.