any tool to at least partially convert C++ to D (htod for source

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 3/11/10 22:34, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> On 3/11/10 14:12, Justin Johansson wrote:
>> Jacob Carlborg Wrote:
>>
>>> On 3/10/10 22:59, Justin Johansson wrote:
>>>> Jacob Carlborg Wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On 3/10/10 16:33, Steve Teale wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> The #1 show-stopper for me was lack of shared object (.so)
>>>>>>> support under
>>>>>>> Linux; virtually mandated by my audience (Apache/LAMP). (A
>>>>>>> workaround
>>>>>>> like FastCGI is simply not appealing to customers.) This topic
>>>>>>> discussed many times before on this NG.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> I also had done a fair amount of work, and foundered on the
>>>>>> inability to
>>>>>> dynamically load anything without it being a big deal.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Like you say, it has been brought up many many times. Everyone
>>>>>> says yes,
>>>>>> this is a real show-stopper, then the thread dies down and so on.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Steve
>>>>>
>>>>> What are the exact problems that people have with shared libraries on
>>>>> linux? I've made a few dynamic libraries on Mac OS X of which only one
>>>>> didn't work (I have no idea why). Among the working libraries were DWT
>>>>> and Tango.
>>>>
>>>> DMD on Linux does not support the creation of shared libraries.
>>>
>>> Is that the runtime or the compiler? What about GDC, too old?
>>
>> AFAIK, it is the linker; something about Linux/Unix ELF object file
>> formats perhaps .. though I'm
>> out of my depth now. Maybe others can explain better.
>>
>> I've never used GDC so cannot say what the issues might be there.
>>
>> Think this thread needs a new subject line to raise the visibility of
>> the issue. Granted
>> though that Walter has acknowledged the issue (at long last).
>>
>> Understandably Walter has lots on his plate; what can be done to help
>> out?
>>
>> Cheers, Justin
>
> I think what we can do to help is to track down exactly what the
> problems are and make sure Walter knows about them. If possible we could
> also try to fix them.
>
> The problems I have are:
>
> Undefined symbols:
> __deh_beg
> __deh_end
> __Dmain
> __minfo_beg
> __minfo_end

Just after I wrote the above I tried to add the symbols as weak symbols 
like this:

void* _deh_beg __attribute__ ((weak));
void* _deh_end __attribute__ ((weak));
void* _Dmain __attribute__ ((weak));
void* _minfo_beg __attribute__ ((weak));
void* _minfo_end __attribute__ ((weak));

Phobos then compiled and I tried a "hello world" application and it it 
worked. I don't know if there are some other parts that don't work.