Creating Libraries Callable from C

[Ali Çehreli via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On 04/26/2014 11:27 AM, Rémy Mouëza wrote:

 > You will also have to declare 2 function for initializing and
 > terminating D's runtime:
 >      char rt_init(long long);
 >      char rt_term(long long);
 >
 > call rt_init(0) before using your D functions (this will initialize D
 > runtime - the D GC amongst other things), then use rt_term(0) at the end
 > of the program - you may want to register an exit function with atexit().

And if those functions are called from the library's own initialization 
and deinitialization functions, the C program need not know anything 
about the D runtime dependence:

void mylib_init() {
     rt_init(0);
     // ... other initialization
}

Ali