dynamic library building and loading

[Rob T]

On Sunday, 30 September 2012 at 10:57:24 UTC, Jacob Carlborg 
wrote:
> On 2012-09-30 08:41, Rob T wrote:
>
> I think most of us know that we need to support all types of 
> libraries. Static and dynamic, both for link time and runtime.

OK we're all in agreement on this point.

> You can have a look at the work done by Martin Nowak:
>
> https://github.com/dawgfoto/druntime/commits/SharedRuntime

It seems that an attempt to make the runtime shared is well under 
way. Did anything get into the main dmd branch or has the effort 
been stalled or ...?

I've only recently been learning what's going on with D and why 
it is what it is, so a breif history lesson may be needed once in 
a while.

> You can replace the GC at link time. Here's an example of a 
> stubbed implemented of the GC:
> http://dsource.org/projects/tango/browser/trunk/tango/core/rt/gc/stub

I will look at this too. Thanks for the pointers.

--rt