On Tue, 09 Feb 2010 15:58:37 -0500, Walter Bright
<newshou...@digitalmars.com> wrote:
Steve Teale wrote:
The inability to do this is a real show-stopper for D on Linux, and
unless things have got better since I last tried, the same can be said
for Windows DLLs.
The dmd/samples/d/dserver.d is an example of a Windows DLL in D.
According to Don (haven't tried, because I don't have a windows box
handy), any D2 DLL will fail, even an empty one because of
http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=3342
That aside, having to handle manual steps to ensure the runtime doesn't
lose its mind is unacceptable. It has to be handled without any manual
runtime coding to be a viable solution. DDL is not a solution, its a hack.
In other words, I should be able to flip a compiler switch to build a
shared lib, and I shouldn't have to do anything special aside from
exporting symbols. This is the way it is in all other programming
languages.
Until Phobos is a shared lib, I don't think we need to have any
discussions about any existing solutions. That is requirement number 1
for saying D supports shared libs.
-Steve
