• BoQsc (12/12) Jun 25 2019 There are lots of talks on this forum about Statical linking,
• kinke (11/15) Jun 25 2019 void main()

BoQsc <vaidas.boqsc gmail.com> writes:

There are lots of talks on this forum about Statical linking, 
Dynamic linking.
There are even shouts: "use the ldc compiler instead, it can do 
all that and even more than the default dmd compiler!!!" and 
bunch of compiler flags, no instructions on how to start or even 
steps on how to reproduce a simple program that wouldn't weight 
megabytes.

I would like receive all the steps in this thread, with all the 
obvious download links and little commenting - the walkthrough.

What I would expect: A simple executable program that does a 
writeln and do not weight tons of megabytes. Thanks.

(1 ton of megabyte == 1 megabyte == 1MB)

kinke <kinke gmx.net> writes:

On Tuesday, 25 June 2019 at 13:13:34 UTC, BoQsc wrote:
 What I would expect: A simple executable program that does a 
 writeln and do not weight tons of megabytes. Thanks.

void main()
{
     import std.stdio;
     writeln("Hello world!");
}

Ubuntu 18.04, LDC v1.16:

 ldc2 hello.d

=> ~1.7 MB

 ldc2 hello.d -link-defaultlib-shared

=> < 20 KB

The 2nd executable depends on the shared druntime and Phobos 
libraries though, whereas the first one is standalone.