Interfacing SQLite with DLang is very easy - why?

[Mike Parker]

On Sunday, 1 September 2024 at 16:18:47 UTC, Selim Ozel wrote:

>
> I am still scratching my head about how I did this and if I 
> made any mistakes because it feels quite un-natural to be able 
> to link together an output compiled by gcc with dmd. If someone 
> could please explain how & why this works, I'd greatly 
> appreciate it!
>

D has been ABI compatible with C from the beginning. It uses the 
same object file formats and the same linkers that C compilers 
use. The earliest D users, at a time when there were no D 
libraries, could write their programs in D and incorporate the 
existing C ecosystem. A lot of the modules people shared back 
then were just bindings to C libraries.