You may recall that back in late October, I overhauled, bugfixed and completed Deja Augustine's partial D-ification of the Python/C API.  I then wrote "distutils" support for dmd, so that compiling and distributing Python extension modules written in D can be done in the way Python/C API programmers expect.

I also intended to write some documentation, and Walter wanted to make the project available in a more visible+official location.  However, progress ground to a screeching halt when I learned that DMD didn't support shared libraries on Linux, making it useless for extending Python (and virtually every other popular interpreted language) on that platform.

Walter then declared his intent (http://www.digitalmars.com/drn-bin/wwwnews?digitalmars.D/29431 ) to deal with the issue.  I haven't been following this newsgroup very closely, but I've searched the archives for the past few months and looked at the DMD release notes, and I can't find any indication of progress on Linux shared libraries. Has there been any, and is there anything I can do to help?

Thanks.

"David Rushby" <David_member@pathlink.com> wrote in message news:dqk0ka$29to$1@digitaldaemon.com...
> Walter then declared his intent
> (http://www.digitalmars.com/drn-bin/wwwnews?digitalmars.D/29431 ) to deal
> with
> the issue.  I haven't been following this newsgroup very closely, but I've
> searched the archives for the past few months and looked at the DMD
> release
> notes, and I can't find any indication of progress on Linux shared
> libraries.
> Has there been any, and is there anything I can do to help?

I haven't forgotten, but I haven't finished the shared library support yet. I know you're blocked with this problem.

Walter Bright wrote:
>"David Rushby" <David_member@pathlink.com> wrote :
>> ... I can't find any indication of progress on Linux shared
>> libraries.
>> Has there been any, and is there anything I can do to help?
>
>I haven't forgotten, but I haven't finished the shared library support yet. I know you're blocked with this problem.

Thank you for the info, Walter.

On Wed, 18 Jan 2006 11:38:02 +0000 (UTC), David Rushby
<David_member@pathlink.com> wrote:

>Walter Bright wrote:
>>"David Rushby" <David_member@pathlink.com> wrote :
>>> ... I can't find any indication of progress on Linux shared
>>> libraries.
>>> Has there been any, and is there anything I can do to help?
>>
>>I haven't forgotten, but I haven't finished the shared library support yet. I know you're blocked with this problem.
>
>Thank you for the info, Walter.

I just want to say I am interested in D Python extensions as well.

Python + C is very powerful, and keeps me from using D in my commercial developments. This has been the case since I first visited these forums 3 and a half years ago.