How to make D resolve C++ symbols by mangling symbols with the Itanium ABI on Windows

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>On Thursday, 29 February 2024 at 19:54:24 UTC, Carl Sturtivant 
>wrote:
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>Of course what we really need to know is the extent to which 
>cross calling actually works >for various C++ constructs. I'd be 
>grateful if anyone finds this out that they'd post it >here. I'm 
>not a C++ fan, so I'm not the person to do this.

Your solution works for the difference in name mangling but 
another problem is that on Windows DMD attempts to follow the 
MSVC ABI which is different from the Itanium ABI. So when calling 
a function compiled by g++ (mingw), it might not work.

The library I need to compile is Skia and after I looked a bit 
more into the docs earlier, it turns out that the library is much 
faster when compiled with clang. I looked into clang's 
compatibility with the MSVC ABI and it pretty has what I need 
apart from the name mangling support which is not fully ready yet.

I'll compile Skia with clang and use your solution to fix the 
name mangling issue so I can call the functions. Once again 
thanks for your reply.