Debugging D shared libraries

[Johannes Pfau via Digitalmars-d-learn]

Am Sun, 20 Sep 2015 17:47:00 +0200
schrieb Johannes Pfau <nospam at example.com>:

> Am Sat, 19 Sep 2015 17:41:41 +0100
> schrieb Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d-learn
> <digitalmars-d-learn at puremagic.com>:
> 
> > On Sat, 2015-09-19 at 16:33 +0000, John Colvin via
> > Digitalmars-d-learn wrote:
> > > On Saturday, 19 September 2015 at 16:15:45 UTC, Russel Winder 
> > > wrote:
> > > > Sadly the:
> > > > 
> > > >  pragma(LDC_global_crt_ctor, 0)
> > > >     void initRuntime() {
> > > >       import core.runtime: Runtime;
> > > >       Runtime.initialize();
> > > >    }
> > > > 
> > > > will not compile under DMD :-(
> > > 
> > > version(LDC){ /* ... */ }
> > > 
> > > not that it helps make things work correctly, but at least 
> > > they'll compile :)
> > 
> > Indeed, it works well. Well for LDC. DMD and GDC are still broken.
> > My GDC problems are deeper that this code: Debian packages seem to
> > have weird problems and Fedora do not package GDC.
> > 
> 
> Have you tried using a newer GDC version? The debian jessie version
> probably uses the 2.064.2 frontend.
> 
> I wanted to add @attribute(cctor/cdtor) support for some time now, I
> even wrote the code some time but didn't push it to the main repo for
> some reason. I'll put it on the TODO list but I can't work on this for
> the next 2-3 weeks.

Just realized this thread is titled "Debugging D shared libraries" ;-)
GDC does not yet support shared libraries.