Compiled dmd2.032 in VC++ 2009!

Jarrett Billingsley jarrett.billingsley at gmail.com
Fri Sep 4 10:33:15 PDT 2009


On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 10:22 AM, Jeremie Pelletier<jeremiep at gmail.com> wrote:
> Jason House Wrote:
>
>> Don Wrote:
>>
>> > Interestingly since DMD has extern(C++), it ought to be possible to
>> > convert a single module to D, and still link it in...
>>
>> extern(C++) support in D is nearly a joke. There are some big areas for improvement, such as support for non-virtual functions, or allowing use of new, ... It's unusable to the point that I can't connect D code to existing C++ or even write efficient wrappers. I've resorted to simply using extern(C) code in C++ and then wrappers in D to use those functions...
>
> From what I know it was mostly intended for interfaces, and it works wonders when binding to COM code in Windows. A lot of the new features of recent windows versions are only available through COM, extern(C++) makes it dead easy to write their bindings.

You've been able to bind to COM interfaces in D for years. extern(C++)
hasn't changed that, as far as I know.



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