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I want to create a Dynamic library (cross-platform) in D, so I did some Googling. After some time I found this page. I am absolutely stunned by how much complexities there are in writing, compiling and even linking to a DLL. Isn't there a uniform way of creating a shared library like you would in C? (just leave out the main function and pass some flags to the linker) Well, I decided to spend some time today messing with this and I kinda sorta have something that works, at least if the main program is also written in D (on Linux, I think it will work from C too on Windows. The reason is I didn

What's the difference between enum i = 2; enum s = "Hello"; and immutable i = 2; immutable s = "Hello"; in D 2.0? stephan An enum is a user-defined type, not a variable. enum e = 2; is a short-hand for something like this enum : int { e = 2 } (i.e. an anonymous enum with one member e ), see the documentation . By definition, all members of an anonymous enum are placed into the current scope. So, e is a type member placed into the current scope, where it behaves like a literal . immutable i = 2; on the other hand actually creates a variable i of type int. This difference has a couple of

This is a C++ / D cross-over question. The D programming language has ranges that -in contrast to C++ libraries such as Boost.Range - are not based on iterator pairs. The official C++ Ranges Study Group seems to have been bogged down in nailing a technical specification. Question : does the current C++11 or the upcoming C++14 Standard have any obstacles that prevent adopting D ranges -as well as a suitably rangefied version of <algorithm> - wholesale? I don't know D or its ranges well enough, but they seem lazy and composable as well as capable of providing a superset of the STL's algorithms.

We are looking for adequate build tool for a desktop GUI application to be written in D (using Qt toolkit), consisting of several native libraries, using 3rd party C-lib(s). It has to build on Linux (native development) and Mac as well on Windows. We might adopt Code::Blocks as IDE. Waf already has support for D language, while CMake is just receiving it cmaked2 . CMake uses special language, while Waf is pure Python...Otoh, CMake, via CPack, can produce packages in several formats as well as GUI installer for e.g. Windoze. Any pro/cons and what would you use? We excluded Scons for speed

I'm running a very computationally intensive scientific job that spits out results every now and then. The job is basically to just simulate the same thing a whole bunch of times, so it's divided among several computers, which use different OSes. I'd like to direct the output from all these instances to the same file, since all the computers can see the same filesystem via NFS/Samba. Here are the constraints: Must allow safe concurrent appends. Must block if some other instance on another computer is currently appending to the file. Performance does not count. I/O for each instance is only a

Using D, how would I listen to incoming HTTP traffic and respond to it? For example (in pseudocode): socket = new socket("locahost", 80) socket.onRequestRecevied(handleRequest); function response handleRequest(request) { //do something with the request and respond request.respond("hello world") } I know there is a lot more to it than that, but I haven't been able to find many resources on responding to incoming http request. EDIT: My current attempts have yielded only exceptions like "Unable to create socket: Operation not permitted." which may mean I'm doing it correctly but am simply