First Draft: Symbol Representation (Export)

[Mike Parker]

On Thursday, 29 February 2024 at 11:15:07 UTC, Richard (Rikki) 
Andrew Cattermole wrote:
> D's support for shared libraries has historically presented 
> challenges for users, especially when dealing with complex use 
> cases. This proposal aims to improve the user experience by 
> establishing a user story that will provide a consistent and 
> user-friendly approach to usage and compilation of binaries 
> without a thorough understanding of linkers.
>
> With the recent resolution of dmd's exportation support on 
> Windows (druntime support is still under development), we are 
> now ready to focus on making D's shared library capabilities 
> more accessible and usable for common use cases.

This proposal is now officially DIP 1045. I've worked with Rikki 
to revise it and it's with Walter and Atila for assessment. 
Unless they let me know they need more time, we should expect a 
decision before April 24th.

https://github.com/dlang/DIPs/blob/master/DIPs/DIP1045.md