Apache "mod_d" needs C to instantiate D interpreter?

[Walter Bright]

JFD wrote:
> Yes, you're right.  One should implement Apache module in D.
> 
> One thing is that Apache module entry point expects a "C" function.  I've figure
> that that one could just add extern(C) in front of D function to be callable from
> C, so that was easy.  Also, Apache expects .so shared library, and one could build
> it roughly like this:
> 
> Let DMD build a .a library:
> dmd -fPIC -lib libhello.d
> 
> Then convert it to shared library:
> gcc -shared -Wl,-soname,libhello.so.0 -o libhello.so.0.0 libhello.a
> 
> Could DMD build .so shared library directly (did I miss something)?
> 
> Then it's all D from there on.  Cool!
> 
> Thank you.


One way to make it work is to take a page from how rdmd works. Write the plugin 
in C, have it simply feed its arguments to the dmd compiler, execute, then 
collect the output of the executable.