I'd like to try D, but...

Jacob Carlborg doob at me.com
Tue Jun 29 02:05:41 PDT 2010


On 2010-06-29 00:45, Neal Becker wrote:
> Sean Kelly wrote:
>
>> Jacob Carlborg Wrote:
>>
>>> On 2010-06-23 15:42, Neal Becker wrote:
>>>> My main interest is building python-callable modules (which I currently
>>>> do
>>>> with C++/boost::python).  Problem is, D can't be used for this, because
>>>> it
>>>> can't produce shared libraries (except on i386).  This is, as I
>>>> understand it, because the D library/libraries are not built as PIC.
>>>>
>>>> This issue has been around for a _long_ time now.  Is there any hope?
>>>
>>> Shared/dynamic libraries are working fine on Mac OS X with Tango. It
>>> also works with D2 with some modifications:
>>> http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=4080
>>
>> Oops, I suppose I should take care of that ticket :-)
>
> Is a similar patch going to work on other systems (Linux?)

Yes, I'm working on it (for linux). But I've encountered a problem: 
http://www.curoles.com/j/dso/dso.html this is not my site but I've come 
as far as on that site, don't know if it's a problem with the compiler 
or the runtime.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg


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