Dll support: testers needed

[solidstate1991]

On Saturday, 6 January 2018 at 19:32:51 UTC, Benjamin Thaut wrote:
> I'm currently back on dll support and I'm applying finishing 
> touches to my dll support PR. Now I want to know if I missed 
> any corner cases and it would be great if a few more people 
> gave the dll support a try.
>
> -To try it out you will need to build dmd, druntime and phobos 
> yourself. I'm not going to provide a binary distribution.
> -You will need to target the microsoft linker. E.g. either use 
> -m64 or -m32mscoff when compiling your programs.
> -be warned, the state of the dll support is not final and 
> subject to change. There is no garantuee that there won't be 
> any breaking changes to dll support.
>
> You can find a quick start guide here: 
> http://stuff.benjamin-thaut.de/D/getting_started.html
> If you need more information and examples take a look here: 
> https://github.com/Ingrater/DIPs/blob/ReviveDIP45/DIPs/DIP45.md
>
> Not all of phobos/druntime has correct export annotations yet 
> as this is not the goal of my initial pull request. If you use 
> a function from druntime/phobos that does not have a correct 
> export annotation you will get a linker error. I'm not 
> interrested in those. I'm interrested in cases where export is 
> correctly used and you will still get linker errors / incorrect 
> program behavior. So if you encounter a linker error first 
> check if the declaration has a export annotation or not. Try 
> adding it and see if the error goes away. If it does not go 
> away, report it here or send me an e-mail to code at 
> benjamin-thaut.de
>
> If you find anything, small repro cases would be appreciated as 
> it makes my life a lot easier.

I would volunteer, but I don't know how much I can do in my exam 
session. Maybe in February, until then not much.