plans for interfacing to C++

[Zachary Lund]

How would this work exactly? Especially on Windows, libraries tend to 
not be compatible with each other. Will a C++ library be required to be 
compiled and linked with a certain toolset?

On 01/09/2012 03:16 AM, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 1/8/2012 7:54 PM, Trass3r wrote:
>> There were some discussions about adding namespace support with
>> something like
>> extern(C++, namespace) IIRC. Don't know the result though.
>>
>> Then there's this small patch
>> (http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=4620) which allows very
>> interesting stuff, even simple templates. It's rotting.
>
> Wanna do a pull request for it?
>
>> So what are the current plans?
>> Not being able to access C++ libraries directly is a real blocker. We
>> should
>> really try to improve the situation.
>
> I'm working as fast as I can :-)