Workarounds for forward reference bugs

[simendsjo]

On Saturday, 6 October 2012 at 10:17:34 UTC, simendsjo wrote:
> On Friday, 5 October 2012 at 15:16:10 UTC, Don Clugston wrote:
>> On 05/10/12 16:33, simendsjo wrote:
>>> Are there any known workarounds for forward reference bugs?
>>> I see 80 bugs is filed, but I don't want to read all of them 
>>> to find any
>>> workarounds. I cannot find anything on the wiki regarding 
>>> this.
>>>
>>> So.. Any good ideas how to get around this?
>>
>> Those "forward reference" bugs have very little in common with 
>> one another, other than the name. It's like "regressions".
>> You'll need to be a little more specific.
>
> import derelict.sfml2.graphics;
>
> void main() {
>     auto font = sfFont_createFromFile("");
>     auto size = font.size; // Error: struct sfFont is forward 
> referenced
> }
>
> $ rdmd -I\code\Derelict3\import forward_reference_bug
> forward_reference_bug.d(5): Error: struct sfFont is forward 
> referenced
> Failed: "dmd" "-I\code\Derelict3\import" "-v" "-o-" 
> "forward_reference_bug.d" "-I."

On second thought.. I don't think this is a bug and rather my 
fault.
sfFont is just defined as "struct sfFont;", so there are no 
fields.
Everything is accessed through functions.

My bad :/