On 13/09/13 15:25, Dicebot wrote:
On Friday, 13 September 2013 at 13:14:49 UTC, Joseph Rushton Wakeling wrote:
Related query -- is there any way of telling the compiler (gdc/gdmd or
preferably any of the D compilers) to strip out unused symbols/functions/data
from the binary?
I have a module that includes a quite large array of immutable data (used for
test purposes), but when this is compiled in with other code it adds about
10MB (!) to the executable size, even when the executable never uses it.
It is exactly what `gdc -fdata-sections -Xlinker --gc-sections app.d` will do.
Tried it. It reduces 12 MB executables to 11 MB -- but if I manually exclude
the module responsible for the big data, executable sizes fall to 2 MB.
