Export and Protected Scoping in Dynamic Libraries

[Adam Wilson]

On Sat, 17 Dec 2011 14:27:12 -0800, Andrei Alexandrescu
<SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org> wrote:

> On 12/17/11 1:22 PM, Adam Wilson wrote:
>> I know DLL's are relatively new to D so not much documentation exists
>> about how they work in D. I think this would be something good to
>> document, especially the special behaviors for Windows. I have to admit
>> that, coming from a C# and C++ background, I've been a little confused
>> by how the scope system works in relation to dynamic libraries and have
>> been shooting the dark trying to figure it out. Thanks for the
>> clarifications! Hopefully this lesson will become part of the D lore
>> surrounding dynamic libs. :-)
>
> The best thing you'd do is to write an article - an RFC - about it,  
> which we publish on the website. While in draft mode, the article  
> documents what needs be done, and after the implementation of shared  
> libs is done (and there's a lot of momentum behind it), the article will  
> become a great description of it.
>
> Andrei

This is a fantastic idea Andrei, I'll see what I can come up with. It  
shouldn't be that hard, mostly i'll just have document the process, talk  
about the limitations of dynamic libraries, and make sure that the scoping  
issues are clearly defined and explained.

-- 
Adam Wilson
Project Coordinator
The Horizon Project
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