Shared libraries/DLLs

[Jarrett Billingsley]

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> As in having DLLs link to symbols exported from the app?  Right, it's not 
> possible without some hackery.  I'm not sure how to do it but apparently 
> it can be done.  I think there are restrictions on it, though.
>
> DLLs really *are* an awful approximation of SOs :(

However there's hope: DDL.  http://www.dsource.org/projects/ddl

It's not entirely polished, but it's basically a sort of SO implementation 
for D on Windows, only it's entirely in userland rather than being part of 
the OS.  Some simple tests have shown that it's more or less able to do the 
same stuff you can do with SOs.  It takes a little more work but the end 
results are much, much better than DLLs could hope to be :)