On Monday, 16 June 2025 at 08:41:57 UTC, Dmitry Olshansky wrote:
On Monday, 16 June 2025 at 07:30:31 UTC, rempas wrote:
So, I wanted to create a library to allow D to be used a
scripting language, in order to allow it to be used to
configure programs. Now, the design of everything is rather
simple. However, I do have one problem. Is there a way to pass
runtime information of a struct, to the compiler that will
compile my code?
If what you desire is run-time configuration then the path
forward is to invoke compiler say via std.process and compile
your config to shared object. After that if compile is
successful dlopen + dlsym is the way to go.
If what I want to do is not possible, I guess that another
idea would be to get compile time information about a struct,
write it to another file and automatically have the compiler
add that file (if that's even possible)? Or maybe, modify the
script file to add an **import** statement to it. Any ideas?
There is import(“some_file”) to import files as data, but I’m
not sure if that is what you are looking for.
Thanks for all that, they are all very interesting! Dejan Lekic
told me about "rdmd" and I think it might actually be what I'm
looking for. If it ends up been what I wanted, I guess I can
build an sort of "wrapper" type of library around it, to make it
a little easier to use and automate some things. I'll try it
later when I find the time, and I'll let you all know!
