Strategies for resolving cyclic dependencies in static ctors

[Jonathan M Davis]

> On 03/22/2011 02:12 AM, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> > I'm intending this thread as somewhat of a roundtable-like discussion.
> > Hopefully we can come up with good material for a short article on
> > Wiki4D, or maybe the D website, or wherever.
> > 
> > The scenario: A coder is writing some D, compiles, runs and gets a
> > "Cyclic dependency in static ctors" error. Crap! A pain for experienced
> > D users, and very bad PR for new D users. (Hopefully we'll eventually
> > get some sort of solution for this, but in the meantime D users just
> > have to deal with it.)
> > 
> > The question: What now? What strategies do people find useful for dealing
> > with this? Any specific "first steps" to take? Best practices? Etc.
> 
> One commonly used hack is to move static constructors into a separate
> helper module and call the initialization function via a C extern (like
> it is done in std.stdiobase):

That's what Phobos does to solve the problem (std.stdiobase being only one of 
the places that it does it). It's likely the solution that I would use as 
well.

- Jonathan M Davis