A special treat

[Steven Schveighoffer]

On Tue, 09 Feb 2010 15:58:37 -0500, Walter Bright  
<newshound1 at digitalmars.com> wrote:

> Steve Teale wrote:
>> The inability to do this is a real show-stopper for D on Linux, and  
>> unless things have got better since I last tried, the same can be said  
>> for Windows DLLs.
>
> The dmd/samples/d/dserver.d is an example of a Windows DLL in D.

According to Don (haven't tried, because I don't have a windows box  
handy), any D2 DLL will fail, even an empty one because of  
http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=3342

That aside, having to handle manual steps to ensure the runtime doesn't  
lose its mind is unacceptable.  It has to be handled without any manual  
runtime coding to be a viable solution.  DDL is not a solution, its a hack.

In other words, I should be able to flip a compiler switch to build a  
shared lib, and I shouldn't have to do anything special aside from  
exporting symbols.  This is the way it is in all other programming  
languages.

Until Phobos is a shared lib, I don't think we need to have any  
discussions about any existing solutions.  That is requirement number 1  
for saying D supports shared libs.

-Steve