Re: Another opportunity for a major design win has presented itself

2013-02-09 Thread Michael
If option -shared is selected, will it automatically generate as PIC, or do you have to also specify -fPIC? When I used gfortran, it was -shared only on windows, on linux both options: -shared and -fPIC. Was obtained empirically.

Re: Another opportunity for a major design win has presented itself

2013-02-09 Thread Walter Bright
On 2/8/2013 6:19 PM, Iain Buclaw wrote: On 7 Feb 2013 20:21, Walter Bright newshou...@digitalmars.com mailto:newshou...@digitalmars.com wrote: No, I can't say who it is at this time. Sorry. But it is a huge opportunity for us. To get the design win, we need to: (a) get dynamic

Re: Another opportunity for a major design win has presented itself

2013-02-08 Thread Benjamin Thaut
Am 08.02.2013 08:18, schrieb Walter Bright: On 2/7/2013 10:36 PM, Oleg Kuporosov wrote: That is cool, but what is the target platform - Win/Lin, 32/64? Initially, Linux. Once that is worked out, doing the others should be straightforward. Well windows will be quite some work because DLLs

Re: Another opportunity for a major design win has presented itself

2013-02-08 Thread Jacob Carlborg
On 2013-02-07 21:16, Walter Bright wrote: No, I can't say who it is at this time. Sorry. But it is a huge opportunity for us. To get the design win, we need to: (a) get dynamic linking and loading to work We want to have this on all platforms but is there a platform that is prioritized for

Re: Another opportunity for a major design win has presented itself

2013-02-08 Thread Jacob Carlborg
On 2013-02-07 22:01, Maxim Fomin wrote: On Thursday, 7 February 2013 at 20:16:03 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: No, I can't say who it is at this time. Sorry. But it is a huge opportunity for us. This is nice. To get the design win, we need to: (a) get dynamic linking and loading to work

Re: Another opportunity for a major design win has presented itself

2013-02-08 Thread Jacob Carlborg
On 2013-02-07 21:16, Walter Bright wrote: (a) get dynamic linking and loading to work I'm willing to help on this one, especially for Mac OS X. I have wanted this for quite a long time. -- /Jacob Carlborg

Re: Another opportunity for a major design win has presented itself

2013-02-08 Thread nazriel
On Thursday, 7 February 2013 at 20:16:03 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: No, I can't say who it is at this time. Sorry. But it is a huge opportunity for us. To get the design win, we need to: (a) get dynamic linking and loading to work AFAIK Martin Nowak has done first part for you. Pull requests

Re: Another opportunity for a major design win has presented itself

2013-02-08 Thread Sean Kelly
On Feb 7, 2013, at 12:16 PM, Walter Bright newshou...@digitalmars.com wrote: No, I can't say who it is at this time. Sorry. But it is a huge opportunity for us. To get the design win, we need to: (a) get dynamic linking and loading to work Which platform? Loading a single dynamic D

Re: Another opportunity for a major design win has presented itself

2013-02-08 Thread Rob T
On Thursday, 7 February 2013 at 20:16:03 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: No, I can't say who it is at this time. Sorry. But it is a huge opportunity for us. To get the design win, we need to: (a) get dynamic linking and loading to work (b) improve language safety without degrading efficiency (c)

Re: Another opportunity for a major design win has presented itself

2013-02-08 Thread Walter Bright
On 2/8/2013 12:29 PM, Sean Kelly wrote: On Feb 7, 2013, at 12:16 PM, Walter Bright newshou...@digitalmars.com wrote: No, I can't say who it is at this time. Sorry. But it is a huge opportunity for us. To get the design win, we need to: (a) get dynamic linking and loading to work Which

Re: Another opportunity for a major design win has presented itself

2013-02-08 Thread Iain Buclaw
On 7 Feb 2013 20:21, Walter Bright newshou...@digitalmars.com wrote: No, I can't say who it is at this time. Sorry. But it is a huge opportunity for us. To get the design win, we need to: (a) get dynamic linking and loading to work We should probably discuss implemetation ideas when you

Re: Another opportunity for a major design win has presented itself

2013-02-08 Thread Rob T
The compiler currently has an option -shared for generating a shared library. It also has an option -fPIC for generating position independent code. If option -shared is selected, will it automatically generate as PIC, or do you have to also specify -fPIC? --rt

Re: Another opportunity for a major design win has presented itself

2013-02-07 Thread Walter Bright
On 2/7/2013 12:34 PM, Andrej Mitrovic wrote: What do you mean by design win? You mean we'd win another company over to D? Yes (for a project of theirs).

Re: Another opportunity for a major design win has presented itself

2013-02-07 Thread Andrej Mitrovic
On 2/7/13, Walter Bright newshou...@digitalmars.com wrote: On 2/7/2013 12:34 PM, Andrej Mitrovic wrote: What do you mean by design win? You mean we'd win another company over to D? Yes (for a project of theirs). Can you give us a teaser on generally what kind of work they do?

Re: Another opportunity for a major design win has presented itself

2013-02-07 Thread Maxim Fomin
On Thursday, 7 February 2013 at 20:16:03 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: No, I can't say who it is at this time. Sorry. But it is a huge opportunity for us. This is nice. To get the design win, we need to: (a) get dynamic linking and loading to work Wasn't this realized before? By the way, last

Re: Another opportunity for a major design win has presented itself

2013-02-07 Thread Walter Bright
On 2/7/2013 1:01 PM, Maxim Fomin wrote: I guess recent patches dedicated to the issue came at right time. The timing is indeed fortuitous. As for your comments about vagueness, yes, it is vague. The DLL support is clear, though, it either works or it doesn't. The other issues are a work in

Re: Another opportunity for a major design win has presented itself

2013-02-07 Thread Nick B
On Thursday, 7 February 2013 at 21:11:18 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: On 2/7/2013 1:01 PM, Maxim Fomin wrote: I guess recent patches dedicated to the issue came at right time. The timing is indeed fortuitous. As for your comments about vagueness, yes, it is vague. The DLL support is clear,

Re: Another opportunity for a major design win has presented itself

2013-02-07 Thread David
Am 07.02.2013 22:11, schrieb Walter Bright: On 2/7/2013 1:01 PM, Maxim Fomin wrote: I guess recent patches dedicated to the issue came at right time. The timing is indeed fortuitous. As for your comments about vagueness, yes, it is vague. The DLL support is clear, though, it either works

Re: Another opportunity for a major design win has presented itself

2013-02-07 Thread Oleg Kuporosov
On Thursday, 7 February 2013 at 20:16:03 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: No, I can't say who it is at this time. Sorry. But it is a huge opportunity for us. To get the design win, we need to: (a) get dynamic linking and loading to work (b) improve language safety without degrading efficiency (c)

Re: Another opportunity for a major design win has presented itself

2013-02-07 Thread Marco Leise
Am Thu, 07 Feb 2013 22:01:10 +0100 schrieb Maxim Fomin ma...@maxim-fomin.ru: On Thursday, 7 February 2013 at 20:16:03 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: (a) get dynamic linking and loading to work Wasn't this realized before? By the way, last weeks there seems to be increasing dynamic linking

Re: Another opportunity for a major design win has presented itself

2013-02-07 Thread Walter Bright
On 2/7/2013 10:36 PM, Oleg Kuporosov wrote: That is cool, but what is the target platform - Win/Lin, 32/64? Initially, Linux. Once that is worked out, doing the others should be straightforward.