On 11/15/2013 7:34 AM, Benjamin Thaut wrote:
Am 15/11/2013 08:32, schrieb Walter Bright:
It's not that bad. Phobos can be built by specifying all the files on
the command line.
Also, at least on Windows, you can call functions in a DLL without
saying dllimport on them and suffering a layer of indirection. The magic
happens in the import library, which provides the relevant thunk. It's
about 15 years since I worked on this stuff, so I might be a bit fuzzy
on the details.
I know that. And we are using that fact in DIP 45. For data symbols we did
suggest a similar behaviour that has to be implemented by us first. And yes we
need data symbols, because of all the implicit data symbols the D programming
language generates. TypeInfos, vtables etc.
I suggest that you read all the links I gave for further reading in DIP 45 and
DIP 45 again, because you are pretty close to what we suggested in DIP 45
without actually realizing it.
I'm very much against the suggested rewriting of obj files to strip the export
records :-)
