obj file for mixin?

[Bruno Medeiros]

kenny wrote:
> darn, it's not everything I hoped for, but that is still REALLY COOL. 
> Thanks!
> 
> A game could create bindings to the core, and then use DMD to compile 
> all of the files before the game starts. A whole AI could be written 
> using d's "scripting" ability :)
> 
> That's really really awesome. Why doesn't someone do that?
> 
> For my purposes (web development), it doesn't satisfy everything that I 
> want. I still need another layer of abstraction, but that does give the 
> ability for the content server to have extensions compiled on the fly 
> (without reloading the servers -- just the d files) AWESOME!!!
> 
> Thanks again :)
> 
> Kenny
> 
> 
> Daniel Keep wrote:
>> kenny wrote:
>>> Are there any examples of this anywhere? This sounds very very 
>>> interesting to me. Actually so interesting that, you may have just 
>>> changed the way I was going to implement something ;)
>>>
>>> Does that mean that I can essentially use D as a scripting language?
>>>
>>> *Can't contain excitement!*
>>
>> I haven't looked at it in a while, but I think Mango does this for 
>> its' build scripts (or they might have removed that).
>>
>> Also, I did something similar with the build scripts for my cairo 
>> bindings (they're up at dsource.org/projects/bindings/ somewhere, I 
>> believe).
>>
>> So yes, you *can* use D as a kinda scripting language.  Just keep in 
>> mind that if you write a scripting library, instead of:
>>
>>  > module my_lib;
>>  > void some_func();
>>  > class Foo { }
>>
>> You need to do this:
>>
>>  > module my_lib;
>>  > template my_lib {
>>  >     void some_func();
>>  >     class Foo { }
>>  > }
>>
>> And then do this in your script:
>>
>>  > mixin my_lib.my_lib;
>>
>>     -- Daniel

I'm sure there's a simpler way to achieve that. Perhaps can use build in 
some sort of way? Or one can create a shell script that wraps calls to 
rdmd and passes the lib's precompiled .objs as parameters (that's what I 
have been doing so far). It works fairly ok except from some Cygwin quirks.


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