D Language Foundation October 2025 Quarterly Meeting Summary

[Richard (Rikki) Andrew Cattermole]

On 14/03/2026 1:43 AM, Mike Parker wrote:
> Luís then brought up a second issue. Weka wanted to move away from 
> statically linking everything and start using dynamic linkage instead, 
> but they had run into a lot of problems there as well. He expected that 
> once they got further into that transition, they would start filing bug 
> reports. One example he had already seen was that export did not work 
> properly together with |-fvisibility=hidden|. He thought this was 
> probably LDC-specific, though he wasn't sure whether there was an 
> equivalent DMD-side mechanism for the same thing. He had noticed cases 
> where compiler-generated symbols, such as postblits, weren't being 
> marked for export, which meant they weren't exported from the shared 
> library.
> 
> I asked whether he already had a bug report for that second issue. He 
> said yes, there were two bug reports related to export not working 
> properly, but he didn't have them handy. I told him to send them to me 
> and I would forward them on to Dennis and Nick. He added that Ilya might 
> also have some other issues to raise, as he was working on a new build 
> system. Weka were integrating Bazel and had run into some issues there, 
> though Luís was not sure of the details.


https://github.com/dlang/DIPs/blob/master/DIPs/other/DIP1045.md

The only thing that was approved was -extI which is now implemented.

This was one of the things featured in the DIP.