On Tuesday, 25 September 2012 at 11:52:38 UTC, Manu wrote:
So I have this recurring pattern, it's really starting to annoy
me.
It stems from the fact that a function prototype and the
definition can not
appear in the same file in D (as it can in C/C++)
[...]
Go on, tear me apart... :)
I'm not sure I understand what benefit you are giving, I'll
explain a situation I went through.
tldr: I like having a clean "header" file for static linking. It
would be nice to build off that to dynamically link.
I wanted to load up a DLL (C++ with C interface). Found this
nifty file on stackoverflow
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3818229/loading-plugins-dlls-on-the-fly
Didn't want to write all those mixins myself. I already had the
"header" file for my DLL and didn't want to write all those
mixins.
I created an array with all the function names, then created a
function which took iterated this array and asked for the
function type as I'd imported the "header."
I ran into a bunch of runtime errors with this setup, probably
didn't like the duplication of function names. Or something
completely different.
Finally I went to static linking. Since I had a nice clean header
I didn't need to do anything fancy, pragma(lib) my .lib file and
disable the defFunctions mixin.
