Window creation, for phobos?

ponce via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Wed Jan 28 01:07:20 PST 2015


On Tuesday, 27 January 2015 at 22:54:15 UTC, ketmar wrote:
> On Wed, 28 Jan 2015 11:04:55 +1300, Rikki Cattermole wrote:
>
>> First off, Derelict-Util/Derelict-GL3 is a biggy here. Its old 
>> code,
>> lets admit it. Its also a standard for loading shared library 
>> functions.
>
> please, not Derelict! it's a great work and all that, but it's 
> habit to
> load ALL functions is nasty. not only it is unnecessary, it's 
> sometimes
> just wrong. i recall the problem with DlangUI, where Derelict 
> tries to
> load FreeImage function which is not in my (old) version of the 
> library,
> and DlangUI is not using that function at all. yet DlangUI 
> builds
> successfully and then failed to run until i commented out that 
> function.

As Mike Parker says, you can support multiple library versions 
since years.

Example: 
https://github.com/d-gamedev-team/gfm/blob/master/enet/gfm/enet/enet.d#L30

And the support for multiple version has gone stronger recently.
Such a thing isn't even possible with static linking.


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