Questions regarding D

[William Newbery]

Jarrett Billingsley Wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 5:35 PM, William Newbery <wnewbery at hotmail.co.uk> wrote:
> >> You do have options.  DDL is a project which aims to perform dynamic
> >> linking on Windows, and it works damn well.  It also has a lot of
> >> useful utility functions to i.e. look up symbols and types by name in
> >> the dynamic library.  There's also another project unrelated to D
> >> called EDLL which more or less does the same things that DDL does; I
> >> don't know if anyone has successfully used it with D.
> >
> > Is there some way around this, I dont really care if D needs to use its own dynamic libary format rather than the windows dll, I just want some external file that D can load and execute (ie it doesnt need to be able to contain resources, or have its own HINSTANCE, or any of the other things dlls can have beyond simply containing classes, functions, etc), and they dont have to be compatible with anything outside of D at all.
> 
> ..yeah, I said DDL and EDLL.

Sorry, the way I read it I thought you meant they were just libaries that tried to make windows dlls more easy to work with, such as ensureing there was only one gc running, and merging the RTTI  if its duplicated, etc.