maarten van damme Wrote:

> But where does the lib file searches for the dll file? how can we control that? Is my hunch right?

The dll is searched by the system. It's a documented procedure. You can control it to some degree by manifest files.

That explains it, thank you.
Now only how come that
"dmd hello.d" results in a 1.70 mb application whereas
"dmd -c hello.d" && "dmd hello.obj phobos.lib" results in a 144 kb app
(sorry for confusion, Turns out I didn't link my app with phobos.lib but
recompiled the object file with phobos.lib

2011/8/20 Kagamin <spam@here.lot>

> maarten van damme Wrote:
>
> > But where does the lib file searches for the dll file? how can we control that? Is my hunch right?
>
> The dll is searched by the system. It's a documented procedure. You can control it to some degree by manifest files.
>

On 20.08.2011 14:07, maarten van damme wrote:
> That explains it, thank you.
> Now only how come that
> "dmd hello.d" results in a 1.70 mb application whereas
> "dmd -c hello.d" && "dmd hello.obj phobos.lib" results in a 144 kb app
> (sorry for confusion, Turns out I didn't link my app with phobos.lib but
> recompiled the object file with phobos.lib
>
> 2011/8/20 Kagamin <spam@here.lot>
>
>     maarten van damme Wrote:
>
>      > But where does the lib file searches for the dll file? how can we
>     control
>      > that? Is my hunch right?
>
>     The dll is searched by the system. It's a documented procedure. You
>     can control it to some degree by manifest files.
>
>

I cannot reproduce this. I get the same size even if I link manually.

On 8/20/11, maarten van damme <maartenvd1994@gmail.com> wrote:
> Now only how come that
> "dmd hello.d" results in a 1.70 mb application whereas
> "dmd -c hello.d" && "dmd hello.obj phobos.lib" results in a 144 kb app

In both cases on my system it produces a 464Kb app. You must be doing something wrong. :)

On 08/20/2011 04:35 PM, Andrej Mitrovic wrote:
> On 8/20/11, maarten van damme<maartenvd1994@gmail.com>  wrote:
>> Now only how come that
>> "dmd hello.d" results in a 1.70 mb application whereas
>> "dmd -c hello.d"&&  "dmd hello.obj phobos.lib" results in a 144 kb app
>
> In both cases on my system it produces a 464Kb app. You must be doing
> something wrong. :)

Unless it is a bug of some sort. Maarten, what system are you on? Also, can you provide your hello.d?

Have you tried to strip the executable?

On 08/20/2011 06:27 PM, Timon Gehr wrote:
> On 08/20/2011 04:35 PM, Andrej Mitrovic wrote:
>> On 8/20/11, maarten van damme<maartenvd1994@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Now only how come that
>>> "dmd hello.d" results in a 1.70 mb application whereas
>>> "dmd -c hello.d"&& "dmd hello.obj phobos.lib" results in a 144 kb app
>>
>> In both cases on my system it produces a 464Kb app. You must be doing
>> something wrong. :)
>
> Unless it is a bug of some sort. Maarten, what system are you on? Also,
> can you provide your hello.d?
>
> Have you tried to strip the executable?

should have read "have you tried stripping the executable".

hello.d first only used part from druntime, thats when it compiled to 144 kb. If I follow the same procedure with parts from phobos.lib it is 500 kb like yours.

I think it is because of my sc.ini.
it contatins this:
-I%@P%\..\..\src\phobos" "-I%@P%\..\..\src\druntime\import"
"-I%@P%\..\..\src\gtkd\src"
"-I%@P%\..\..\src\gtkd\srcsv" "-I%@P%\..\..\src\gtkd\srcgda"
"-I%@P%\..\..\src\gtkd\srcgl"
"-I%@P%\..\..\src\gtkd\srcgstreamer" "-L %@P%\..\lib\GtkD.lib"
"-I%@P%\..\..\src\bindings"
"-L %@P%\..\lib\win32.lib"

Is it including stuff from that while that's not used?
I'm using dmd on windows 7.

I'm thinking this is a compiler bug as I have reviewed my programs and nearly all of them are 1.7 mb so it includes parts of something in my flags while not needed

2011/8/20 maarten van damme <maartenvd1994@gmail.com>

> hello.d first only used part from druntime, thats when it compiled to 144 kb. If I follow the same procedure with parts from phobos.lib it is 500 kb like yours.
>
> I think it is because of my sc.ini.
> it contatins this:
> -I%@P%\..\..\src\phobos" "-I%@P%\..\..\src\druntime\import"  "-I%@P%\..\..\src\gtkd\src"
> "-I%@P%\..\..\src\gtkd\srcsv" "-I%@P%\..\..\src\gtkd\srcgda" "-I%@P%\..\..\src\gtkd\srcgl"
> "-I%@P%\..\..\src\gtkd\srcgstreamer" "-L %@P%\..\lib\GtkD.lib" "-I%@P%\..\..\src\bindings"
> "-L %@P%\..\lib\win32.lib"
>
> Is it including stuff from that while that's not used?
> I'm using dmd on windows 7.
>
>
>

You are explicitly linking to GtkD.lib and win32.lib, that's what's causing the increase in size.

Is there a way to only link against it when it's needed automatically? I was
hoping dmd would do that automatically.
But you're right, it now spits out a 144 kb executable
2011/8/22 Andrej Mitrovic <andrej.mitrovich@gmail.com>

> You are explicitly linking to GtkD.lib and win32.lib, that's what's causing the increase in size.
>