Compiler as dll

[Yigal Chripun]

Walter Bright wrote:
> I've done the compiler-as-dll thing for the Digital Mars IDE. It has
> some problems, though. The biggest is it's another executable to test,
> doubling the testing process. It could be done as one executable by
> making a shell that calls the dll, but those are just inconvenient,
> harder to debug, and there's the old "dll hell" with versions.
>
> Instead, what you can do is simply dude up command line arguments, spawn
> the command line compiler, and collect the result.

here's a thought: use DDL instead. no more "dll hell" :)