Exporting template function instances to C

[data pulverizer via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Thursday, 23 March 2017 at 16:38:02 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
> On Thursday, 23 March 2017 at 16:28:18 UTC, data pulverizer 
> wrote:
>> alias mult!double dmult;
>> alias mult!float fmult;
>
> Those are just aliases in the D compiler, they don't actually 
> exist in the object file for C to use like regular functions.
>
> Templates need to actually be *used* to be instantiated for 
> export, and aliases make them easier to use, but don't actually 
> use them yet.
>> Why is that?

Thanks. Is there a less ham-handed way of exporting them other 
than wrapping them in functions as I have?