Creating DLL

[Adam D Ruppe]

On Thursday, 16 June 2022 at 16:37:34 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote:
> Agreed but that excludes using the D runtime in 'static this' 
> (and shared) blocks, right?

It is runtime.initialize that calls those `static this` blocks.

> If my explicit call to Initialize is in a 'shared static this'

This is backward - the explicit call to Initalize is in the exe. 
It'd look like:

// this code is in the exe! pretend it is C++ or whatever

HANDLE lib = LoadLibrary("my_d_lib.dll");
if(lib !is null) {
      auto fn = cast(typeof(init_func)) 
GetProcAddress("Initialize");
      if(fn !is null) {
            fn(); // this now calls runtime.initialize which calls 
the static this blocks etc
           // you're now good to call any D functions
      }
}