Does D have a way to get and pass sturct information at runtime?

[rempas]

On Monday, 16 June 2025 at 08:41:57 UTC, Dmitry Olshansky wrote:
> On Monday, 16 June 2025 at 07:30:31 UTC, rempas wrote:
>> So, I wanted to create a library to allow D to be used a 
>> scripting language, in order to allow it to be used to 
>> configure programs. Now, the design of everything is rather 
>> simple. However, I do have one problem. Is there a way to pass 
>> runtime information of a struct, to the compiler that will 
>> compile my code?
>
> If what you desire is run-time configuration then the path 
> forward is to invoke compiler say via std.process and compile 
> your config to shared object. After that if compile is 
> successful dlopen + dlsym is the way to go.
>
>> If what I want to do is not possible, I guess that another 
>> idea would be to get compile time information about a struct, 
>> write it to another file and automatically have the compiler 
>> add that file (if that's even possible)? Or maybe, modify the 
>> script file to add an **import** statement to it. Any ideas?
>
> There is import(“some_file”) to import files as data, but I’m 
> not sure if that is what you are looking for.

Thanks for all that, they are all very interesting! Dejan Lekic 
told me about "rdmd" and I think it might actually be what I'm 
looking for. If it ends up been what I wanted, I guess I can 
build an sort of "wrapper" type of library around it, to make it 
a little easier to use and automate some things. I'll try it 
later when I find the time, and I'll let you all know!