• Derek Parnell (9/9) Apr 17 2007 Hi Walter,
• Alexander Panek (6/12) Apr 17 2007 Please put that on your TODO list.. doesn't have to be on the top, but
• Serg Kovrov (7/12) Apr 17 2007 This is exactly question I ask when read an install note on Ares at a
• BCS (3/16) Apr 17 2007 How about put that setting in the dmd.conf file and put sections in it s...
• Brad Anderson (3/9) Apr 17 2007 ooooh, please do this, Walter!
• Dave (3/14) Apr 17 2007 I would love to have this command-line controlled, as well as configurab...
• Derek Parnell (18/22) Apr 17 2007 Maybe I haven't been clear enough. My question above is a sincere one an...
• Justin C Calvarese (24/42) Apr 17 2007 Only Walter knows the answer to this, but I'll offer a guess.
• Dejan Lekic (3/3) Apr 17 2007 There should be compiler switch not to link against either Phobos or Tan...

Derek Parnell <derek psych.ward> writes:

Hi Walter,
what is the rationale for having "phobos" hardcoded in DMD? 

Would there be much work to free this up to make it a configuration item
instead?

-- 
Derek Parnell
Melbourne, Australia
"Justice for David Hicks!"
skype: derek.j.parnell

Alexander Panek <a.panek brainsware.org> writes:

Derek Parnell wrote:
 Hi Walter,
 what is the rationale for having "phobos" hardcoded in DMD? 
 
 Would there be much work to free this up to make it a configuration item
 instead?
 

Please put that on your TODO list.. doesn't have to be on the top, but 
it would be really great. Especially for Phobos & Tango 
interoperability, and things like OS development.. always having to link 
in a libphobos.a is a bit of a pain in the ass sometimes, especially in 
this case.

Serg Kovrov <kovrov no.spam> writes:

Derek Parnell wrote:
 Hi Walter,
 what is the rationale for having "phobos" hardcoded in DMD? 
 
 Would there be much work to free this up to make it a configuration item
 instead?

This is exactly question I ask when read an install note on Ares at a 
time. People are hesitant to even try Tango because of it.

I think there should be a compiler switch for not to link against Phobos 
implicitly.

-- 
serg.

BCS <ao pathlink.com> writes:

Reply to Serg,

 Derek Parnell wrote:
 
 Hi Walter,
 what is the rationale for having "phobos" hardcoded in DMD?
 Would there be much work to free this up to make it a configuration
 item instead?
 

 This is exactly question I ask when read an install note on Ares at a
 time. People are hesitant to even try Tango because of it.
 
 I think there should be a compiler switch for not to link against
 Phobos implicitly.
 

How about put that setting in the dmd.conf file and put sections in it so 
that one lib or another can be picked just by changing a command line switch.

Brad Anderson <brad dsource.org> writes:

Derek Parnell wrote:
 Hi Walter,
 what is the rationale for having "phobos" hardcoded in DMD? 
 
 Would there be much work to free this up to make it a configuration item
 instead?
 

ooooh, please do this, Walter!

BA

Dave <Dave_member pathlink.com> writes:

Brad Anderson wrote:
 Derek Parnell wrote:
 Hi Walter,
 what is the rationale for having "phobos" hardcoded in DMD? 

 Would there be much work to free this up to make it a configuration item
 instead?

 
 ooooh, please do this, Walter!
 
 BA

I would love to have this command-line controlled, as well as configurable in
dmd.conf and sc.ini. I 
wish both Tango and Phobos could be bundled together w/ the DM supplied
compiler download as well.

Derek Parnell <derek nomail.afraid.org> writes:

On Wed, 18 Apr 2007 07:31:32 +1000, Derek Parnell wrote:

 Hi Walter,
 what is the rationale for having "phobos" hardcoded in DMD? 

Maybe I haven't been clear enough. My question above is a sincere one and
not rhetorical. I believe that it is possible that there is a very good
reason for having Phobos hard coded, it's just that I don't know what that
might be and I would like to find out.
 
 Would there be much work to free this up to make it a configuration item
 instead?

By "configuration item", I am not trying to imply any specific
implementation. Rather I'm just expressing a desire that Walter allows
something external to DMD, but controllable by the developer, to be used to
inform the linker what should be the /default/ library to link against. I
suppose if none is supplied by the developer to DMD that DMD could use
"phobos" as its in-built default name.

-- 
Derek
(skype: derek.j.parnell)
Melbourne, Australia
"Justice for David Hicks!"
18/04/2007 12:14:44 PM

Justin C Calvarese <technocrat7 gmail.com> writes:

Derek Parnell wrote:
 On Wed, 18 Apr 2007 07:31:32 +1000, Derek Parnell wrote:
 
 Hi Walter,
 what is the rationale for having "phobos" hardcoded in DMD? 

 
 Maybe I haven't been clear enough. My question above is a sincere one and
 not rhetorical. I believe that it is possible that there is a very good
 reason for having Phobos hard coded, it's just that I don't know what that
 might be and I would like to find out.

Only Walter knows the answer to this, but I'll offer a guess.

I suspect the reason that it's hardcoded is because it'd be next to 
impossible (if not impossible) to write a D program that doesn't require 
something stored in phobos.lib. In particular, the garbage collector is 
in there. The standard lib also contains the object prototype and the 
code required to sort an array. Since you would need an object to work 
with exceptions, the program that doesn't need something from the 
standard lib is going to be very stripped down.

Of course, they've made Tango work without Phobos by studying which 
parts of Phobos are required to be in the standard library by the 
language and put something similar in Tango.

It would be nice if we could use some sort of command line line switch 
to specify to use another lib than phobos.lib so that Tango and Phobos 
could coexist more easily. Programs would still be unable to use Tango 
and Phobos at the same time (at least until Gregor Richards released 
"tangobos"), but a "alternative standard lib" switch could still come in 
handy.


 Would there be much work to free this up to make it a configuration item
 instead?

 
 By "configuration item", I am not trying to imply any specific
 implementation. Rather I'm just expressing a desire that Walter allows
 something external to DMD, but controllable by the developer, to be used to
 inform the linker what should be the /default/ library to link against. I
 suppose if none is supplied by the developer to DMD that DMD could use
 "phobos" as its in-built default name.

I don't see why this wouldn't be possible. I'll bet that someone 
familiar with the DMD front end could figure out how hard (hopefully 
it'd be easy) this would be. (But looking at the DMD front end isn't one 
of my talents.)

-- 
jcc7

Dejan Lekic <dejan.lekic gmail.com> writes:

There should be compiler switch not to link against either Phobos or Tango,
IMHO. - This would encourage people to try to make some low-level libraries
themselves...
It should be something like --nostdlib in GCC, and/or --nocrt later (to totaly
avoid linking against libc).

Regards