On Thursday, 26 February 2015 at 21:37:46 UTC, Marc Schütz wrote:
On Thursday, 26 February 2015 at 19:53:54 UTC, Taylor
Hillegeist wrote:
So, In languages like .net they have dll's that contain not
only bytecode but also the necessary headers to make them
usable in any .net language. I was curious if this kind of
thing has ever been attempted for static libraries?
basically some type of universal header + static library =
Everything Needed to use in project file.
of course they would be targeted for a certain platform but
would be really easy to grab/use.
And if the header could be agreed upon any compiled language
could use the library which would be a huge benefit.
Perhaps i'm incorrect in my assumptions. Let me know what you
think about the idea?
IIRC, Pascal unit files work that way. No interface source file
is required to use them.
That Looks pretty close to exactly correct:
http://www.freepascal.org/docs-html/user/userse11.html
It was still two files but it looks like the .ppu was analogous
to a c header. like the compiler striped out all the necessary
declarations. Very interesting... But I don't think it makes it
easier to link to with d. The idea is pretty cool though. I
wonder if other compilers do the work of creating sources with
the logic striped out for use as a header only.
One of the listed uses for a unit was if the developer wanted to
hide his ip but allow others to use the code.
Does D have a way of doing this?
