Right now, what's the most important for the success and adoption of D?
Craig Black
craigblack2 at cox.net
Fri Sep 28 14:31:45 PDT 2007
"Patrick Kreft" <patrick_kreft at gmx.net> wrote in message
news:fdjoh7$rdk$1 at digitalmars.com...
> Steven Schveighoffer schrieb:
>> "Patrick Kreft" wrote
>>> Cuz Dynamic lib are platfrom feature.
>>> On Windows are DLL. Linux have shared libs, and its incompatible.
>>
>> I'm sorry, no, that argument falls flat on its face.
>>
>> 1. Other languages have solved this problem
>> 2. DMD.exe is "incompatible" with dmd the linux compiler, so how do you
>> explain the co-existance of those?
>>
>> -Steve
>
> Hmm, i didnt get what do u wanne say. Your previous speaker complain about
> not portable dynamic library. DLL arent running on Linux. CLR and Java are
> others situation. That is why the most lib are static libs, same situation
> like C++.
It is true that load time D dynamic libraries would be different on
linux/windows. However, that does not prevent us from being able to compile
a DLL on Windows and an SO on linux. That would be fine. What Steven and I
are trying to understand is why it seems that can't be done with DMD.
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