llvm-d

[Jens Mueller]

Moritz Maxeiner wrote:
> On Monday, 18 March 2013 at 13:50:29 UTC, Jens Mueller wrote:
> >I don't know how this is done on Windows. On Linux you just set
> >the
> >LD_LIBRARY_PATH.
> 
> My problem with that is that it's a) not encapsulated inside the
> program and b) OS dependent.

Very true. Do you have a solution for this? I can add it to ddl, if that
is the right place to put it.

> >Probably. There are very few users for such a use case.
> >But if you would use LLVM's plain C interface in D users who have
> >used
> >the API in C will feel home. I mean why expose the LLVM C API as
> >an
> >addition. It certainly does no harm.
> 
> The C API will keep being exposed, of course; all I meant was that
> splitting them off might not be the best idea when they mostly exist
> only to be used by the D API and the C API should not be used unless
> you really want/have to.

And by splitting you mean in different files, right?

> >Usually, I use dynamic linking. I believe you would do the same if
> >optlink worked.
> 
> Maybe if optlink had worked with COFF when I started using D (back
> in D1 times), but right now, even if optlink would start working on
> win32 with COFF I'd still go with runtime loading as often as
> possible (Not counting D libraries with D classes in them, of
> course, only C API libraries). Mostly because this way you can start
> your programs with "rdmd program.d". No need to care at all about
> libraries: Getting a working compilation should imho be as simple as
> invoking the compiler with the source file that contains your main
> (or the root file of the library to create). Extra argument are
> necessary for specific configuration, but compiling should work with
> the least amount of extra argument as possible.

I see.

> >The process is usually pretty simple. But the documentation is
> >lacking.
> >There are several pieces floating around. I can try writing one
> >document
> >and try to push it to the official web site.
> 
> That'd be great, thank you very much.
> 
> >Do as you like it. I do not think this is a bad approach.
> 
> I'll to that, then. I'm currently working on the D API, but I'll try
> to get the copied deimos compatible project started in the next
> couple of days.

Sounds good. I'm going to write the documentation this evening.

Jens