Apache "mod_d" needs C to instantiate D interpreter?

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2010-11-09 04:21, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> On 11/8/10 4:37 PM, 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.
>
> People at Facebook told me that the adoption of D inside the company
> might be helped if they could simply write <?d ... ?> to insert D code
> into a page. I'm not sure how difficult such a plugin would be to
> implement. Also, D code should be able to call PHP code (which is a bit
> less difficult than it seems because we use HPHP, a PHP to C++ translator).
>
> Andrei

Can't DMD already compile D code embedded in HTML: 
http://www.digitalmars.com/d/2.0/html.html ?

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg