On Tuesday, 26 January 2021 at 17:39:50 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
On Tue, Jan 26, 2021 at 02:12:17PM +0000, Adam D. Ruppe via
Digitalmars-d-learn wrote:
On Monday, 25 January 2021 at 21:48:10 UTC, Vitalii wrote:
> Q: Why filling assoc.array in shared library freeze
> execution?
D exes loading D dlls are very broken on Windows. You can
kinda make it work but there's a lot of bad design and
showstopper bugs.
[...]
Just out of curiosity, what are some of the showstoppers? I'd
have expected D exe's loading D dll's should be the first
priority in making Windows dll's work in D. I'm surprised
there are still obvious problems.
T
The biggest one for me, is that RTTI isn't "shared" across
boundaries.
So typeid(int) in your .exe isn't compatible with typeid(int)
from a .dll
I found out the hard way, since sdlang-d was giving me a very
strange type mismatch error which was caused due to this issue in
typeid.
Am I wrong in saying that it was fixed at some point though, or
at least, someone was attempting a fix?
It's kind of discouraging to hear from Adam that there's actually
even *more* issues regarding DLLs.
I've crossed them out of my mind entirely at this point though,
since Windows in general doesn't seem to get much love in certain
parts of D (e.g. the makefile for Phobos didn't support things
that the posix makefile did).
