I was looking at D with great excitement a few days ago. It looks to be something I'd like to tinker with within Windows and possibly BeOS (though getting a compiler would be an interesting feat as BeOS is still stuck in the GCC 2.95 world) however, I want to make DLL's with D. So here are some questions:

How do I go about exporting classes? Is that possible yet?
How does one import DLL's with the current toolset? I saw a reference to an
implib tool, where do I get this from? Is the Borland version a usable
alternate? (as iirc Borland use OMF)

TIA

Matt

me wrote:

> I was looking at D with great excitement a few days ago. It looks to be
> something I'd like to tinker with within Windows and possibly BeOS (though
> getting a compiler would be an interesting feat as BeOS is still stuck in
> the GCC 2.95 world) however, I want to make DLL's with D. So here are some
> questions:
> 
> How do I go about exporting classes? Is that possible yet?

export class Foo {}

> How does one import DLL's with the current toolset? I saw a reference to an
> implib tool, where do I get this from? Is the Borland version a usable
> alternate? (as iirc Borland use OMF)

You have a couple of possibilities:

Use the loader module of Phobos to dynamically load dlls or
make an import library (either download bup.zip from digitalmars or use the /IMPLIB switch when linking the dll).

Lars Ivar Igesund

> > How do I go about exporting classes? Is that possible yet?
> export class Foo {}

Cool, I'll try that later.

> You have a couple of possibilities:
>
> Use the loader module of Phobos to dynamically load dlls

That's one to look into at a later date ;-)

>or  make an import library (either download bup.zip from digitalmars or use
> the /IMPLIB switch when linking the dll).

The /IMPLIB didn't work for me, but the bup package worked like a charm. The implib works pretty much as I remember the old Borland one did.

Right, back to the day job (Delphi..)

Matt

me wrote:

> The /IMPLIB didn't work for me, but the bup package worked like a charm. The
> implib works pretty much as I remember the old Borland one did.

Sorry, it should be /implib (small letters).

Lars Ivar Igesund

I have yet to get this to work, always says missing __Class definition, has anyone gotten this to work ... and then _link_ against the generated stub ?

Charlie

In article <cb6ff8$pd4$1@digitaldaemon.com>, Lars Ivar Igesund says...
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>me wrote:
>
>> The /IMPLIB didn't work for me, but the bup package worked like a charm. The implib works pretty much as I remember the old Borland one did.
>
>Sorry, it should be /implib (small letters).
>
>Lars Ivar Igesund