On Thursday, September 20, 2012 20:49:32 Øivind wrote: > Thanks for the explination. The trick you talk about has worked > for me before, but now I really need static init of modules that > depend on eachother. Only solution I can think of is to list all > modules in a script and generate d code from this to call init > functions.. Then pass it to dmd along with the other code. > > Sad that we can't get this to work like it really should. D is a > very flexible language in many ways, and it seems strange that it > should not allow the stuff I want to do here..
If you have a true circular dependency, then you're just plain screwed and need to redesign your code. That's fundamental and _can't_ be fixed. Off the top of my head, the only reason that you wouldn't be able to use the trick that std.stdio uses but not have a true circular dependency is if your initializing const or immutable variables in a static constructor. But then the solution is to refactor your code so that you don't have the circular dependency, even if it's just moving those variables into a separate module, which is generally quite feasible, even if it's not necessarily quite what you wanted. - Jonathan M Davis
