State of windows DLL support

[Nicholas Wilson via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Sunday, 3 April 2016 at 11:46:24 UTC, rikki cattermole wrote:
> On 03/04/2016 11:36 PM, Nicholas Wilson wrote:
>> What is the state of DLL support on windows?
>>
>> I ask because I have a project coming up very soon which will 
>> require
>> interacting with DLLs (I think it is a C interface) and I 
>> would much
>> rather do it in D than C given the opportunity.
>>
>>   I don't think the choice of language matters, users and 
>> maintainers
>> can read neither C nor D, and it has to be able to communicate 
>> with
>> LabVIEW (shudder,gag), best way would be some kind of File 
>> based
>> bidirectional pipe, or some kind of localhost server? I would 
>> be writing
>> the server.
>
> Assumption: you need a shared library loaded into LabVIEW.
>
> What I would suggest is if you can throw together a simple c 
> library that manages:
>
> - starting/stopping/restarting a process
> - communicating with said process
>
> That way you can alter during runtime the program and still use 
> D, or any language really.

I would much rather have nothing to do with LabVIEW for a large 
number of reasons, not the least of which is that it will be much 
simpler to explore/debug with just the server. That and IMO 
LabVIEW is the scum of the earth and I would rather program in 
INTERCAL, that program in LabVIEW.