Dll support: testers needed

[Bastiaan Veelo]

On Tuesday, 9 January 2018 at 20:07:03 UTC, Andre Pany wrote:
> On Tuesday, 9 January 2018 at 18:32:24 UTC, Benjamin Thaut 
> wrote:
> Thanks for your deep analysis. There are several reasons I want 
> to have the exe as Delphi application:
> 1) I faced some minor (Delphi) IDE/Libraries bugs with having 
> the Delphi gui within a dll.
> 2) The Delphi IDE provides you the possibility to e.g. easily 
> change the exe icon/attach additional resources to the exe, ...
> 3) Delphi lets you also create android/iPhone applications. I 
> assume there will be no other way than place the D coding 
> within a shared object for this scenario.

I wrote a mixed language app with interdependent components (no D 
though). The exe is minimal and does not export anything, its 
main function is practically a one liner that calls into one of 
the DLLs; but it could contain a lot more. First only the export 
library is built for component 1. With it, component 2 is built 
completely, giving a DLL and export lib. Now the DLL for 
component 1 can be built and the exe.

I don’t know if this is possible in your case, but you may be 
able to have a Delphi exe wth the things that must be there but 
no exports, then have a Delphi DLL and D DLL with exports to each 
other.

Not sure if it would make a difference, but this construction 
works well for us.