DIP45: fixing the dllimport/dllexport issue

[Benjamin Thaut]

Am 27.08.2013 15:33, schrieb Andrej Mitrovic:
> On 8/27/13, Benjamin Thaut <code at benjamin-thaut.de> wrote:
>> Well, a link would have been great:
>>
>> http://wiki.dlang.org/DIP45
>
> Using export(identifier) is not going to be reliable, since chances of
> clashes are high.
> E.g. if libFoo uses export(Foo) and libBar also uses export(Foo), you
> won't be able to distinguish between the two.
>
> Instead I think 'identifier' should be a module name.
>
> However, I have a better idea. Why not only introduce compiler
> switches that are based on module names rather than having to annotate
> what export does in code? For example:
>
> dmd -m64 -export libB.* -import libA.* -of"libB.dll" dllmain.d libB.d
> -L/DLL -L/IMPLIB:"libB.lib" -LlibA.lib
>
> "-export libB.*" means all modules and subpackages of the libB package
> should be exported, whereas "-import libA.*" means the opposite for
> libA.
>
> This way you don't have to edit any existing code.
>

I thought about something along those lines aswell. But wouldn't that 
create a very long command line if you do it for druntime?