DIP 45 - approval discussion

[Walter Bright]

On 11/16/2013 7:22 AM, Martin Nowak wrote:
> On 11/15/2013 08:32 AM, Walter Bright wrote:
>>
>> It's not that bad. Phobos can be built by specifying all the files on
>> the command line.
>
> That's the essential trade-off we have to make.
> Either we come up with a clumsy way to list all DLL modules during compilation
> (separate compilation) or we add some compiler logic to auto-import exported
> data symbols. In the latter case compiled object files can be used for a DLL AND
> a static library.
> We found the second approach to be more attractive.

Why? dmd is very fast at compiling. I'm not sure what is being saved here.


> The only issue is that most of the time one wants to strip exports when using
> objects for a static library.

That's a pretty big issue (to me, anyway).