On 10/28/2013 07:00 PM, Steve Teale wrote:
That sounds a bit implausible. New language keyword or something to load a library or object file. My best guess is that extern(C) dlopen() will just work correctly, failing that I'd think we need an equivalent Phobos call.
We need another runtime layer to account for per-thread initialization/finalization of modules (static this()/static ~this()). There is Runtime.loadLibrary/Runtime.unloadLibrary and rt_loadLibrary/rt_unloadLibrary to do this. You can use dlopen from a C executable but the loaded D library is only usable from the loading thread. For a C executable the recommended pattern is to dlopen or link druntime (libphobos2.so) and to use rt_loadLibrary/rt_unloadLibrary to load D libraries. Currently the best available documentation are the tests (https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/druntime/tree/master/test/shared).
