Status D dynamic libs?
Frank Benoit
keinfarbton at googlemail.com
Fri Apr 25 11:22:10 PDT 2008
Bruno Medeiros schrieb:
> Yup. Due to the nature of DLL's, D-to-D shared libraries are never going
> to work right (unless one restricts the API to C-level constructs only,
> ie, no classes, no exceptions, etc.).
> That's why a project such as DDL is so important, and it's a shame that
> Walter does not realize how beneficial such technology would be for D.
> Anyone who has used libraries with Java or C# (or interpreted high-level
> languages) knows how comfortable it is not having to worry about any of
> such issues, and still have the full power of the language available
> across libraries.
>
yes.
And even if .so on linux can do most of the stuff DDL does, it would be
good to have a toolchain that works on all plattforms in the same way.
That would also mean that the binary format is defined in the D language
spec.
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