Re: Linux shared library loading/linking from C does not invoke (shared) static this

2021-01-12 Thread ichneumwn via Digitalmars-d-learn 

On Tuesday, 12 January 2021 at 09:49:46 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:

On Tuesday, 12 January 2021 at 09:31:08 UTC, ichneumwn wrote:



Follow on to my own question: on Linux, with gcc, I have 
created the following file "starter.c" that I inject into my D 
shared library:


  int rt_init(void);
  int rt_term(void);

  // should really check for errors!
  static void __attribute__((constructor)) Dstarter(void) {
rt_init();
  }

  static void __attribute__((destructor)) Dterminator(void) {
rt_term();
  }

That seems to do the trick. Not sure how clean this is?


You should be able to do the same in D with 
`pragma(crt_constructor)` and `pragma(crt_destructor)`:


https://dlang.org/spec/pragma.html#crtctor
https://dlang.org/spec/pragma.html#crtdtor
https://dlang.org/changelog/2.078.0.html#crt-constructor


Perfect, thanks! Interestingly, as I removed the C stub and tried 
the D route, I noticed that just calling rt_init() is enough to 
also get static ~this() to run on exit. In fact then adding 
writeln in a pragma(crt_destructor) function shows that it gets 
called after static ~this().


For anyone stumbling across this thread and looking for the 
import for rt_init/term:


import core.runtime : rt_init, rt_term;

Re: Linux shared library loading/linking from C does not invoke (shared) static this

2021-01-12 Thread ichneumwn via Digitalmars-d-learn 

On Tuesday, 12 January 2021 at 09:02:38 UTC, Imperatorn wrote:

On Tuesday, 12 January 2021 at 08:19:45 UTC, ichneumwn wrote:
Where could one file a suggestion for an update to the 
documentation?


In the top right section of the page you can click the "Improve 
this page"-link.


Thanks, I will leave it though. I do not want to mess about and 
write about something I have just learnt in the last hour. That 
could do more damage than good.

Re: Linux shared library loading/linking from C does not invoke (shared) static this

2021-01-12 Thread ichneumwn via Digitalmars-d-learn 

On Tuesday, 12 January 2021 at 08:19:45 UTC, ichneumwn wrote:

Dear all,

I was trying to invoke some D code from Python and ran into 
issues which I eventually traced back to a simple example on 
the D website itself :


https://dlang.org/articles/dll-linux.html

Particularly the section "Dynamically Loading a D DLL From a C 
Program"


In my case, and indeed already in 2013 
(https://forum.dlang.org/post/yeqyqaaguhngczlnv...@forum.dlang.org), shared static this does not get invoked


I normally use:
LDC - the LLVM D compiler (1.21.0):
  based on DMD v2.091.1 and LLVM 10.0.0   (under Linux)

but I also tried
DMD64 D Compiler v2.095.0

Is the solution suggested in the linked post the "canonical 
way"?


Where could one file a suggestion for an update to the 
documentation?


Cheers!

PS Enjoying my project in D especially how easy it is to get 
the same code to run under windows too


Follow on to my own question: on Linux, with gcc, I have created 
the following file "starter.c" that I inject into my D shared 
library:


  int rt_init(void);
  int rt_term(void);

  // should really check for errors!
  static void __attribute__((constructor)) Dstarter(void) {
rt_init();
  }

  static void __attribute__((destructor)) Dterminator(void) {
rt_term();
  }

That seems to do the trick. Not sure how clean this is?

Linux shared library loading/linking from C does not invoke (shared) static this

2021-01-12 Thread ichneumwn via Digitalmars-d-learn 

Dear all,

I was trying to invoke some D code from Python and ran into 
issues which I eventually traced back to a simple example on the 
D website itself :


https://dlang.org/articles/dll-linux.html

Particularly the section "Dynamically Loading a D DLL From a C 
Program"


In my case, and indeed already in 2013 
(https://forum.dlang.org/post/yeqyqaaguhngczlnv...@forum.dlang.org), shared static this does not get invoked


I normally use:
LDC - the LLVM D compiler (1.21.0):
  based on DMD v2.091.1 and LLVM 10.0.0   (under Linux)

but I also tried
DMD64 D Compiler v2.095.0

Is the solution suggested in the linked post the "canonical way"?

Where could one file a suggestion for an update to the 
documentation?


Cheers!

PS Enjoying my project in D especially how easy it is to get the 
same code to run under windows too

Re: Waiting on file descriptor/socket *AND* thread messages

2020-06-29 Thread ichneumwn via Digitalmars-d-learn 
On Monday, 29 June 2020 at 12:25:16 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer 
wrote:

On 6/29/20 5:14 AM, ichneumwn wrote:

[...]


Not in the standard library. Such things require an event 
framework, because there is no OS-agnostic provided mechanism 
to sleep on all these things at once.


I recommend looking through code.dlang.org. I found these:

https://code.dlang.org/packages/libasync
https://code.dlang.org/packages/eventcore
https://code.dlang.org/packages/mecca (this seems very 
underdocumented, but I know it provides such a system)



[...]


I don't know the correct way to solve this, I've done it in the 
past by creating a file descriptor that can be waited on to 
wake up the target along with any other file descriptors being 
waited on.


-Steve


Thanks for the pointers Steve!

Waiting on file descriptor/socket *AND* thread messages

2020-06-29 Thread ichneumwn via Digitalmars-d-learn 

Dear all,

Is there some facility in D for a single statement/function call 
that will wait on both file descriptors, like Socket.select(), 
and will also wake up when there is something to be receive()'d?


One solution would be to have my main thread use receive() and a 
helper thread that does the select() call and sends a message to 
the main thread. That seems a bit of overkill however.


Apologies if this has been asked before, but my google search and 
search in this thread were fruitless (could be my searching 
skills)


Cheers