Hello all. I'm sorry if this has been addressed before.
For a little background. I've been studying C++ with the
intention of doing cross platform work on Windows, OSX, and
eventually iOS and some other mobile OSes. My plan was to write
cross platform shared libraries for the core functionality and
implement the GUI using Win32, Cocoa, etc. Well, while C++ is
powerful, I'm finding it a beast to work with. I kept thinking
about abandoning C++ altogether and using C# with Mono until I
stumbled upon D. D sounds exactly like what I am looking for,
powerful yet productive and native.
My question however is how to do D cross platform development. I
can't seem to find any recent information about it. From what I
have gathered so far it seems, shared libraries are possible on
win/osx/linux, but only when linked against other D code. For
linking against C, I can create a DLL in windows, but I can't
create an .so in linux, and no information at all about OSX. Some
of the information I found is years old and I can't tell if the
situation has changed. There is nothing in the FAQ about
libraries. And googling provides little information.
So, is it possible to write the core of an application in a cross
platform D library that can be callable by C, C++, or Objective-C
to provide the GUI elements?
If not, is it possible to write a C wrapper around the library
that is then callable by C, C++ or Objective-C?
How have others approached this situation?
Besides the library issues, what other issues or gotchas should I
look out for in regards to cross platform development?
