C++ template name mangling

[Idan Arye via Digitalmars-d]

On Saturday, 16 August 2014 at 01:55:44 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:
> The state/layout must be duplicated. The D compiler would 
> generate proper mangled calls and even (in the future) proper 
> constructor and destructor calls, which would take us to the 
> holy grail - seamless C++ object manipulation from D. From the 
> C++ side this is needed:
>
> template class basic_string<char>;
>
> That instructs the C++ compiler to make all methods of that 
> instantiation available for linking. Then D would simply 
> compile calls to them, achieving parity save for inlining. 
> Inlining is important so probably in stage 3 we should allow 
> inlining on the D side as well.
>
>
> Andrei

Wouldn't that mean that the you'll need to make a .cpp file with 
all the template instantiations used by the D code and compile it 
with a C++ compiler?

dmd can't do all that automatically for you, since it does not 
contain a C++ compiler, but maybe it can be ran with the `-c` 
flag to disable linking, produce that .cpp file, and the build 
system will be responsible for compiling that file and linking it 
together with the rest of the project?