On Monday, 2 September 2024 at 02:04:59 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
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.
Wow, I started using D only five years ago & genuinely didn't
know this. Amazing. Thank you.
