On Monday, 26 September 2016 at 23:32:05 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
How much of an issue is this with D? Is it something we need to address?
I've run into this problem a few times and it took me a while to understand how to correctly initialize the druntime (including attaching pthreads), when I was implementing dfuse. This is not necessarily only limited to using D from C but also from using C libraries that create threads or do other funky things that the druntime needs to be aware of.
It would be great to have a section in the documentation on how to correctly initialize the druntime, which are typical pitfalls (threads created in C land, callbacks into C, etc) and how to correctly link druntime.
If we don't do this already we should offer a phobos.lib on windows, and phobos.a on MacOS/Linux (the latter one i think we do).
