• Templated Person (6/6) Jun 15 2022 It there any resources on how to build D static (`.lib` / `.a`)
• Guillaume Piolat (8/15) Jun 15 2022 What I would suggest is to look at a few of the BindBC libraries
• Guillaume Piolat (4/6) Jun 15 2022 My bad I understood the reverse, consuming C libraries from D.
• =?UTF-8?Q?Ali_=c3=87ehreli?= (13/20) Jun 15 2022 I had difficulty figuring out how everything fit together in a
• mw (6/13) Jun 15 2022 Check:

Templated Person <templated person.com> writes:

It there any resources on how to build D static (`.lib` / `.a`) 
and dynamic libraries (`.dll` / `.so`), and then use them from C?

Do I need to link and initialize phobos somehow? What if I don't 
want to use the D runtime? What happens with module level 
`this()` and `~this()`? Is there a comprehensive guide on how to 
do this stuff?

Guillaume Piolat <first.last gmail.com> writes:

On Wednesday, 15 June 2022 at 17:37:32 UTC, Templated Person 
wrote:
 It there any resources on how to build D static (`.lib` / `.a`) 
 and dynamic libraries (`.dll` / `.so`), and then use them from 
 C?

 Do I need to link and initialize phobos somehow? What if I 
 don't want to use the D runtime? What happens with module level 
 `this()` and `~this()`? Is there a comprehensive guide on how 
 to do this stuff?

What I would suggest is to look at a few of the BindBC libraries 
and mimic them.
https://code.dlang.org/search?q=bindbc

BindBC bindings are multi-platform and can be both static and 
dynamic linking.
They can also work without a D runtime.

Guillaume Piolat <first.last gmail.com> writes:

On Wednesday, 15 June 2022 at 19:36:34 UTC, Guillaume Piolat 
wrote:
 BindBC bindings are multi-platform and can be both static and 
 dynamic linking.

My bad I understood the reverse, consuming C libraries from D.
I think what you are seeking is described in the D blog.

=?UTF-8?Q?Ali_=c3=87ehreli?= <acehreli yahoo.com> writes:

On 6/15/22 10:37, Templated Person wrote:
 It there any resources on how to build D static (`.lib` / `.a`) and
 dynamic libraries (`.dll` / `.so`), and then use them from C?

 Do I need to link and initialize phobos somehow?

Not Phobos but the D runtime.

 What if I don't want to
 use the D runtime? What happens with module level `this()` and
 `~this()`?

I had difficulty figuring out how everything fit together in a 
complicated scenario. (Different language runtimes calling each other 
and starting the D library.) However the following worked.

 Is there a comprehensive guide on how to do this stuff?

I gave a DConf presentation that answers some of your questions:

   https://dconf.org/2020/online/

Please click the 'November 22' tab on that page to expand "Exposing a D 
Library to Python Through a C API". But here are the links:

Slides: https://dconf.org/2020/online/slides/ali-2.pdf

Video: https://youtu.be/FNL-CPX4EuM

Q&A: https://youtu.be/M5wtRgfAoAA

Ali

mw <mingwu gmail.com> writes:

On Wednesday, 15 June 2022 at 17:37:32 UTC, Templated Person 
wrote:
 It there any resources on how to build D static (`.lib` / `.a`) 
 and dynamic libraries (`.dll` / `.so`), and then use them from 
 C?

 Do I need to link and initialize phobos somehow? What if I 
 don't want to use the D runtime? What happens with module level 
 `this()` and `~this()`? Is there a comprehensive guide on how 
 to do this stuff?


Check:

https://code.dlang.org/packages/autowrap



https://github.com/symmetryinvestments/autowrap/tree/master/examples