DMD and GDC static libraries are incompatible on Linux?

[Iain Buclaw via D.gnu]

On 18 February 2015 at 22:13, Jeremy DeHaan via D.gnu
<d.gnu at puremagic.com> wrote:
> On Monday, 9 February 2015 at 19:24:22 UTC, Iain Buclaw wrote:
>>
>> GDC and DMD are not ABI compatible.  There are many reasons why this
>> is so, but the one that is likely affecting you is because DMD emits
>> references to symbols that do not exist in GDC's runtime library.
>>
>> Iain.
>
>
> I was thinking about this today and I had another question. What about
> shared libraries? If I were to release a library on Linux in shared library
> form, would it be compatible between compilers?


The answer would still be no because of calling convention differences
- another reason why GDC and DMD are not ABI compatible.

However, if you used an extern(C) API, then that should be at least
some guarantee of shared library compatibility.

Iain.