On 2011-11-08 11:32, Don wrote:
On 08.11.2011 10:40, Gor Gyolchanyan wrote:
I think that a programming language that declares itself as a "System
Language" should be able to build and use native shared libraries.
You're completely right. Just as D supports extern(C) to support
C-function, it should support C-libraries. But this doesn't mean, that
this is the way it should work always.
At the end, all shared libraries are always usable, because they need
a C API and D can interface with C APIs. There can even be neat
high-level wrappers around those APIs to ease the access to C shared
libraries.
But I think encouraging programmers to wrote _new_ libraries in _D_
using those shared library formats is a bad idea. Too many
workarounds, too much danger.
There is the DDL project with that approach:
http://www.dsource.org/projects/ddl/wiki
I knew about DDL a long time ago. But it's D1 only and doesn't seem to
be willing to add D2 support. If and when it supports D2, I'll take a
look at it, test it for various traits and if it passes the tests I'll
make a pull request to add it to Phobos.
Last serious update seems to be 4 years ago. D2 barely existed back then.
There's a fork available that is a bit more recent:
http://h3.gd/devlog/?p=12
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/Jacob Carlborg
