On Sunday, 3 April 2016 at 11:46:24 UTC, rikki cattermole wrote:
On 03/04/2016 11:36 PM, Nicholas Wilson wrote:
What is the state of DLL support on windows?
I ask because I have a project coming up very soon which will
require
interacting with DLLs (I think it is a C interface) and I
would much
rather do it in D than C given the opportunity.
I don't think the choice of language matters, users and
maintainers
can read neither C nor D, and it has to be able to communicate
with
LabVIEW (shudder,gag), best way would be some kind of File
based
bidirectional pipe, or some kind of localhost server? I would
be writing
the server.
Assumption: you need a shared library loaded into LabVIEW.
What I would suggest is if you can throw together a simple c
library that manages:
- starting/stopping/restarting a process
- communicating with said process
That way you can alter during runtime the program and still use
D, or any language really.
I would much rather have nothing to do with LabVIEW for a large
number of reasons, not the least of which is that it will be much
simpler to explore/debug with just the server. That and IMO
LabVIEW is the scum of the earth and I would rather program in
INTERCAL, that program in LabVIEW.
