Am 09.01.2013 12:39, schrieb nazriel:
On Wednesday, 9 January 2013 at 02:49:34 UTC, Rob T wrote:
I'm very surprised that not too many people have been screaming for
dynamic linking and runtime loading. It's very hard for me to imagine
not having the feature because it's so darn useful and an essential
feature if your strategy is to allow 3rd parties to extend an
application without hacking at the source code.
If there's another better way, I'd sure like to know about it!
--rt
There were many people screaming about it.
Just there is nobody who could make it work.
Walter claimed that compiler is shared-lib ready, it is just druntime
that is lacking. And he hasn't got knowledge to make it work on his own.
Sean Kelly is out - he was Walter's bet to make it work.
My hope was Martin Nowak, he was working on it but seems that he also
got busy with other stuff
The compiler is not shared-lib ready. At least not on windows. It does
not support exporting data symbols. E.g.
export uint g_myGlobal;
This is mostly a problem for "hidden" data symbols, like vtables, module
info objects, type info objects and other stuff D relies on.
Druntime on windows does already handle everything else pefectly (e.g.
threads and TLS)
Kind Regards
Benjamin Thaut
