On 01/02/2014 07:22 PM, Jeroen Bollen wrote:
Currently D has a very poor support for creating and loading dynamic
libraries. It requires a bunch of code while other languages like C just
allow you to create it as you would create a static library.
A problem here seems to be that D wants to integrate as much as possible
with other languages, resulting in very poor support for integrating
with it's own language.
There are plans to make it much simpler.
http://dconf.org/2013/talks/nowak.html
I understand that the problem here is that the libraries get saved as
.so or .dll, which should also linkable with other, non-D, applications,
meaning the runtime cannot initialize on it's own.
The runtime just needs to become a .so or .dll itself.
Why isn't there a D-specific format for dynamic libraries, that just
shares the garbage collector with the main application, and thus only
allow you to link it with D programs, and that way make it way easier to
write a dynamic library in D.
It's a good idea to integrate with existing technologies and it's rather
less effort than creating our own infrastructure.
I guess the only reason this doesn't exist is because it'll take a lot
of work?
