On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 7:13 PM, Rainer Deyke<rain...@eldwood.com> wrote: > Jarrett Billingsley wrote: >> ON WINDOWS, DLLs are not allowed to have unresolved externals. So if >> you create a DLL in D, yes, Phobos will be linked in. THERE IS >> NOTHING THAT CAN BE DONE ABOUT THAT. It's a limitation on the way >> DLLs work. > > In theory, wouldn't it also be possible to solve this problem by passing > a pointer to the external dependencies into the DLL via an > initialization function?
That's how many apps on Windows do plugins; they pass a sort of global structure pointer that holds a bunch of function pointers into the host. Basically doing the runtime linking by hand. It's *possible*, but very tedious. It seems almost pointless when you consider the existence of DDL.