Is it possible to use DMD as a library to compile strings at runtime?

[Saurabh Das]

On Saturday, 1 February 2020 at 20:37:03 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 01, 2020 at 08:01:34PM +0000, Andre Pany via 
> Digitalmars-d-learn wrote: [...]
>> Another approach:
>> - include the dmd compiler package with your application
>> - within your app call the compiler executable and compile the 
>> source
>> code to a dll / so
>> - call the dll / so function
> [...]
>
> I've actually done this before in an equation grapher program: 
> the user inputs an equation, the program generates D code to 
> compute the equation, then runs dmd to compile it into a shared 
> library, and opens the shared library and looks up the symbol 
> to execute the compiled code. Dmd is fast enough that this 
> actually works fairly well. When the input to dmd is small, 
> it's so fast you don't even notice it.
>
>
> T

This approach seems more tractable at present. Would you have any 
example code lying around for this?

Saurabh