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Status D dynamic libs?
Apr 19, 2008
Frank Benoit
Apr 19, 2008
Walter Bright
Apr 19, 2008
e-t172
Apr 19, 2008
Frank Benoit
Apr 19, 2008
Walter Bright
Apr 19, 2008
Frank Benoit
Apr 20, 2008
Walter Bright
Apr 19, 2008
e-t172
Apr 19, 2008
Frank Benoit
Apr 19, 2008
e-t172
Apr 20, 2008
Frank Benoit
Apr 20, 2008
Robert Fraser
Apr 19, 2008
Robert Fraser
Apr 19, 2008
Lars Ivar Igesund
Apr 19, 2008
Frank Benoit
Apr 20, 2008
Max Samukha
Apr 20, 2008
Tom S
Apr 20, 2008
Frank Benoit
Apr 20, 2008
Tom S
Apr 25, 2008
Bruno Medeiros
Apr 25, 2008
Frank Benoit
April 19, 2008
If i want to put dwt into a dynamic lib, then i have those components

- D runtime (tango)
- dwt (either dwt-win or dwt-linux, depends on tango)
- dwt-addons (optionally, dependending on dwt-win/dwt-linux and tango)
- application code, depending on all above.

What i want to do is, to put all dwt and dwt-addons stuff into two libs.

I hope to get shorter build times and smaller executables.

Is that possible on win/linux?
What are the problems?

As far as I remember, Walter said at the conference that DMD /does/ generate pic (position independent code) and it /should/ work. If there are problems, he would need examples and/or bug reports. Are there problems? Are there reports?

April 19, 2008
Frank Benoit wrote:
> If i want to put dwt into a dynamic lib, then i have those components
> 
> - D runtime (tango)
> - dwt (either dwt-win or dwt-linux, depends on tango)
> - dwt-addons (optionally, dependending on dwt-win/dwt-linux and tango)
> - application code, depending on all above.
> 
> What i want to do is, to put all dwt and dwt-addons stuff into two libs.
> 
> I hope to get shorter build times and smaller executables.
> 
> Is that possible on win/linux?
> What are the problems?
> 
> As far as I remember, Walter said at the conference that DMD /does/ generate pic (position independent code) and it /should/ work. If there are problems, he would need examples and/or bug reports. Are there problems? Are there reports?
> 

First of all, with Windows, you can already create DLLs and use them now. It also has nothing whatsoever to do with PIC. There is an example on doing Windows DLLs in the samples directory.

Shared libraries under Linux are completely different. The compiler does generate PIC code, so the compiler work is done, but nobody has sat down and figured out the details of making Phobos work as a shared library.
April 19, 2008
Walter Bright a écrit :
> Shared libraries under Linux are completely different. The compiler does generate PIC code, so the compiler work is done, but nobody has sat down and figured out the details of making Phobos work as a shared library.

Frank Benoit does not need to compile Phobos as a shared library to do what he wants to do. So the answer is yes, it's possible.
April 19, 2008
Frank Benoit a écrit :
> If i want to put dwt into a dynamic lib, then i have those components
> 
> - D runtime (tango)
> - dwt (either dwt-win or dwt-linux, depends on tango)
> - dwt-addons (optionally, dependending on dwt-win/dwt-linux and tango)
> - application code, depending on all above.
> 
> What i want to do is, to put all dwt and dwt-addons stuff into two libs.
> 
> I hope to get shorter build times and smaller executables.
> 
> Is that possible on win/linux?
> What are the problems?

On Windows, I don't know. On Linux, I have already compiled a D shared library with no problems whatsoever. I'm using GDC, but if DMD supports PIC you should be just fine.

Just remember not to include Phobos/Tango when creating your shared library (it won't work, because Phobos/Tango is not compiled PIC). With GDC you can avoid linking to Phobos/Tango using the -nophoboslib switch. I don't know for DMD. Of course, you still have to link to Phobos/Tango when building the actual application.

However, when maintaining shared libraries, automatic function inlining might cause problems. See the "library standardization" thread for details.
April 19, 2008
e-t172 schrieb:
> On Windows, I don't know. On Linux, I have already compiled a D shared library with no problems whatsoever. I'm using GDC, but if DMD supports PIC you should be just fine.
> 
> Just remember not to include Phobos/Tango when creating your shared library (it won't work, because Phobos/Tango is not compiled PIC). With GDC you can avoid linking to Phobos/Tango using the -nophoboslib switch. I don't know for DMD. Of course, you still have to link to Phobos/Tango when building the actual application.
> 
> However, when maintaining shared libraries, automatic function inlining might cause problems. See the "library standardization" thread for details.

Did you use the example code from the digitalmars windows example?
Can you post a minimized linux example?
Can "new MyClass" be called?
Have you tried with exceptions crossing the lib boundary? (bug #1693)

Not linking tango you mean just the tango-base-dmd.a, like supplying an empty dummy.a ?

April 19, 2008
I would like to collect as much information as possible.

Windows:
Looking at the DLL example, it looks like DLLs are fully supported.
- Has someone used this successfully?
- Bug #1693 (DLLs and exceptions) seems to be a show stopper for the dwt into a DLL project?
- Why isn't it possible to call "new MyClass" instead of "getMyClass"?

D runtime:
- What are the problems, doing it into a dyn. lib?

April 19, 2008
Frank Benoit wrote:
> I would like to collect as much information as possible.
> 
> Windows:
> Looking at the DLL example, it looks like DLLs are fully supported.
> - Has someone used this successfully?
> - Bug #1693 (DLLs and exceptions) seems to be a show stopper for the dwt into a DLL project?

I don't know. Haven't investigated it.

> - Why isn't it possible to call "new MyClass" instead of "getMyClass"?

??

> 
> D runtime:
> - What are the problems, doing it into a dyn. lib?
> 

I don't know. It hasn't been investigated.
April 19, 2008
Walter Bright schrieb:
> Frank Benoit wrote:
>> - Why isn't it possible to call "new MyClass" instead of "getMyClass"?
> 
> ??

In the example a getMyClass is used. So i thought it might not be possible to call "new MyClass" directly?
April 19, 2008
Frank Benoit a écrit :
> Did you use the example code from the digitalmars windows example?

No. I don't develop on Windows.

> Can you post a minimized linux example?

I don't see the point. As far as I know, any D code can be made into a shared library. Just compile it with PIC and create the library.

> Can "new MyClass" be called?

Yes, why not?

> Have you tried with exceptions crossing the lib boundary? (bug #1693)

IIRC, yes. And it works.

> Not linking tango you mean just the tango-base-dmd.a, like supplying an empty dummy.a ?

I don't use DMD, so I can't tell for sure. I don't see any reason why this wouldn't work, though.
April 19, 2008
Frank Benoit wrote:
> [...]

I really wish DDL was still alive, or something similar. That had the right idea and would have solved many of the issues D has with traditional dynamic libraries.
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