D-dll support: testers needed round 2

[Rainer Schuetze]

On 21/03/2018 14:08, Martin Nowak wrote:
> On Friday, 9 February 2018 at 20:34:33 UTC, Benjamin Thaut wrote:
>> My work on dll support for D continues. There is another iteration I 
>> need help testing with.
>>
>> Getting started tutorial: 
>> http://stuff.benjamin-thaut.de/D/getting_started.html
>> The DIP can again found be here: 
>> https://github.com/Ingrater/DIPs/blob/ReviveDIP45/DIPs/DIP45.md
>> The DIP is not up to date. The tutorial is more recent. If the DIP and 
>> the tutorial contradict each other trust the tutorial. Its still 
>> useful to read the dip for context, especially as how to use "export" 
>> in code.
> 
> Glad to see some progress.
> Given that the goal of DIP45 was seemless DLL support given just export 
> annotations, the need for explicit -import module lists indeed requires 
> an explanation. Looks like a classical dllexport/-import scheme now.

AFAICT -import was an idea proposed by Walter because he didn't like 
-useshared that is still in the DIP.

A previous version of the DLL support implemented -useshared and worked 
quite well in my tests. For simplicity I prefer -useshared although it 
might incur a minor performance penalty when adding an indirection to a 
library that is actually linked statically (not sure about the linker 
optimization you mentioned in the other response).