Passing string from D to c++

[Milvakili]

On Tuesday, 30 July 2013 at 20:02:51 UTC, Dicebot wrote:
> On Tuesday, 30 July 2013 at 19:52:44 UTC, Milvakili wrote:
>> I'm linking D with C++ lib.a file.  When the C++ function has 
>> compatible data types I can call them from D.  But when I 
>> changed the parameter to string I got bunch of errors.
>>
>> Data Type Compatibility table does not include strings.  Is 
>> there a way of passing strings?
>
> http://dlang.org/phobos/std_string.html#.toStringz


So I need to pass them as char*, I can not pass them as string?