Some questions

[Nick Sabalausky]

"Ezneh" <petitv.isat at gmail.com> wrote in message 
news:i2f8c5$2cca$1 at digitalmars.com...
> Hi everyone, I have some questions about D and phobos library.
>
> Well first of all, what about the issue when compiling a D source in a 
> .dll ? Is it ok or there are still some problems ?
>
>
> Secondly, I will have to communicate with the serial port "RS232" on 
> Windows but I don't find something allowing this in the phobos library. 
> Maybe I didn't check enough. So is there a way to communicate trough this 
> or should I create that library by myself ?
>
>
> [OT]
> I have bought the TDPL and i like it. Good job Andrei.
> [/OT]
>
> Ez.

D programs can be linked to C libraries, so you should be able to use any 
serial communication library you can use in C, you just need to convert the 
C header file to D declarations ( 
http://www.digitalmars.com/d/2.0/htomodule.html ). I've heard that 
Inpout32.dll can access the serial ports ( 
http://logix4u.net/Legacy_Ports/Parallel_Port/Inpout32.dll_for_Windows_98/2000/NT/XP.html ) 
.