dynamically compile and load glue logic

[H. S. Teoh]

On Fri, Mar 30, 2018 at 02:24:45PM +0000, yawniek via Digitalmars-d-learn wrote:
> in how far is it or would the following be possible:
> 
> dynamically compile and execute some glue logic that is also written
> in D under linux?
> 
> and what happens if that code uses phobos or other dub libs that are
> available in the host binary?
[...]

I've written a program where user input drives the generation of a code
snippet that then gets passed to an invocation of dmd, compiled, linked
and the loaded as a shared library via dlopen(), et al. It works fairly
well, and dmd generally is fast enough that the pause is not very
noticeable. (This was before dmd-as-a-library was available; I imagine
it would be even faster today now that you don't have to spawn a
separate dmd process.)

The generated snippet does import std.math, and it seems to work fine.
But then the generated snippets tend to be fairly small, and only use a
limited subset of the language, so there may be gotchas that I'm not
aware of.


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