Why do Kotlin/Native produced binaries depend on l...
# kotlin-nativej
Jorrit
12/30/2017, 5:14 PMWhy do Kotlin/Native produced binaries depend on libstdc++ ?
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olonho
12/30/2017, 7:25 PMWhat platform are you talking about?
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Jorrit
01/01/2018, 9:45 AMTested on mingw... I had assumed the same is the case for other platforms?
Jorrit
01/01/2018, 9:49 AMTo clarify, it links it statically. Unless you change some things around in konan.properties, then it becomes a dynamic dependency. Stripping it out almost halves the file size. Admittedly I know very little about compilers, I'm just curious why it is needed.
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olonho
01/01/2018, 2:15 PMMingw runtime is linked into the binary (as it is not available on all target machines). Typical binary size on most other platforms is smaller. Parts of C++ runtime are needed for exception handling, as K/N currently uses C++ personality function.
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