On Monday, 21 September 2015 at 04:22:30 UTC, Paul O'Neil wrote:
As the title says, cpp_binder is a tool that generates C++
bindings. It reads C++ headers and produces a D file filled
with "extern(C++)" declarations. It can translate a bunch of
cool, small examples, but is not close to being ready for
prime-time. It crashes a lot, especially in the STL; since the
STL is pretty pervasive, I have not successfully used
cpp_binder on an actual C++ library.
I've written more about cpp_binder and my experiences at
http://www.todayman.net/cpp_binder-pre-announcement-and-status.html.
The code is available at https://github.com/todayman/cpp_binder
. cpp_binder still dumps lots of debugging info to stdout and
stderr, so you'll probably want to redirect those somewhere
beesides your console.
I hope that this post will spur discussion / decisions / action
binding C++ libraries into D. I think the language
capabilities (e.g. extern(C++, namespace)) get really far and
that the next big push needs to be on binding real libraries
and tools to help.
This strikes as a most needed project. How come it crashes a lot
? Glancing quickly at the source, it looks like it is using clang
as a source of C++ truth.
If you can make it work on the STL, that would be a significant
step forward for D. I'm very serious.
