D and SCons [ was Re: bigint <-> python long ]

[Johannes Pfau]

Am Mon, 10 Sep 2012 14:48:30 +0200
schrieb Johannes Pfau <nospam at example.com>:

> Sorry, I should have said 'It'll _probably_ never be supported in
> gdc'. There are some possible solutions but:
> 
> * It must be good enough to get approved when gdc is merged into gcc.
>   (remember it must be portable and gpl and you can't use
>   stdout/stdin...)
> * Someone would have to implement the solution. I guess Iain had his
>   reasons not to implement it so somebody else would have to do that.
> 
> Of course you can always try to make it work with external build
> tools. But a solution _in_ gdc seems not very likely.

For reference: Here's the gdc bug report for pragma(lib):
http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=1690

Filed 2007, closed 2012 as RESOLVED/WONTFIX.