On Sunday, 1 September 2024 at 16:18:47 UTC, Selim Ozel wrote:
I am still scratching my head about how I did this and if I made any mistakes because it feels quite un-natural to be able to link together an output compiled by gcc with dmd. If someone could please explain how & why this works, I'd greatly appreciate it!
D has been ABI compatible with C from the beginning. It uses the same object file formats and the same linkers that C compilers use. The earliest D users, at a time when there were no D libraries, could write their programs in D and incorporate the existing C ecosystem. A lot of the modules people shared back then were just bindings to C libraries.
