Equivalent of DllMain for OSX dynamic libraries?

[Iain Buclaw via Digitalmars-d]

On 26 July 2014 09:37, Jacob Carlborg via Digitalmars-d
<digitalmars-d at puremagic.com> wrote:
> On Friday, 25 July 2014 at 22:15:15 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>
>> We've just open-sourced another D project at Facebook (just a developer
>> beta), an ODBC driver for the Presto database engine:
>> https://github.com/prestodb/presto-odbc.
>>
>> The Windows version works well now, and Mark Isaacson (the author of the
>> driver and incidentally my intern) is working already on the OSX port using
>> iODBC. We've hit a number of issues, the most basic one being that shared
>> static this() initializers don't seem to be called for our driver.
>
>
> There is no equivalent to DllMain on OS X or Posix for that matter. The
> closest you get is the GCC/Clang attribute __attribute__((constructor)), but
> that requires using a C file, if not LDC or GDC supports that attribute.
>
> Just for the record, dynamic libraries doesn't work yet on OS X in D. At
> least not properly. This might be the reason why shared static this() isn't
> called.
>


shared static this() shouldn't be called directly when the library
loads.  It's invocation is handled by D runtime module
loaders/unloaders.