Shared library in D on Linux

[Timo Westkämper" <timo.westkamper at gmail.com>]

On Saturday, 14 April 2012 at 14:48:47 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote:
>> With gdc I get different errors, but it seems even more 
>> difficult to get it working.
>>
>> Does anyone know what is missing to get proper shared library 
>> support working on Linux?
>>
>
> Most prerequisites are merged now but there are still some 
> smaller things I need to do.
>
> https://github.com/dawgfoto/dmd/tree/SharedRuntime
>  - split off EH changes 
> (github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd/pull/821)
>
> https://github.com/dawgfoto/druntime/tree/SharedRuntime
>  - split off EH changes 
> (github.com/D-Programming-Language/druntime/pull/185)
>  - TLS ranges must not be updated in SIGUSR1
>  - integrate dylib_fixes.c (weak main, automatic 
> rt_init/rt_term)
>  - integrate shared library tests
>  - cleaner makefile and unittests
>
> https://github.com/dawgfoto/phobos/tree/SharedRuntime
>  - cleaner makefile and unittests
>
> This should be all to support link-time shared libraries.
>
> For runtime loading we'd need:
>
>  - a GC hook to mark/finalize auxiliary memory
>  - traversal of DSO dependency DAGs for thread
>    local initialization

Ok. Good to know. Is there a ticket where I can follow the 
progress?

I opened this one, but there might be also another ticket for it 
: http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=7870