State of windows DLL support

[rikki cattermole via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On 04/04/2016 12:16 AM, Nicholas Wilson wrote:
> 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.

I'm just guessing context here.