On Tuesday, 19 March 2013 at 14:55:10 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
On Tuesday, 19 March 2013 at 14:30:19 UTC, Lemonfiend wrote:
Hi,
I'm interested in updating the existing OpenCL bindings
(https://github.com/Trass3r/cl4d) so they work with Derelict3,
but have never undertaken such a task.
I'm not sure where/how to begin.
Does anyone have any advice? :)
Trass3r's binding is static, with a wrapper on top of it. Plus,
the binding (in the 'c' package) uses mixins to some end (just
gave it a cursory look, so not clear on the details). I don't
think there's anything to "update" here. It's a different
approach entirely than what I take with Derelict.
That's a shame.
My advice is just to start from scratch. Look at the smaller
Derelict packages (DerelictAL, DerelictFT, DerelictGLFW3) for
the basic layout. I'm not familiar with the OpenCL API. Never
used it or looked at it, so I don't know if you'll need
something as more complex like the DerelictGL3 package. But the
basic idea is to put all type declarations in one module named
types.d, all function pointer alias and declarations in
functions.d, and then load everything up via a subclass of
SharedLibLoader in a module named appropriately for the binding
(in this case, cl.d would be a good choice, with
derelict.opencl as the package name).
I see. That's a larger project than I'd hoped. Considering I've
never created a binding before, is there some kind of
tutorial/recommended reading available?
This is actually something I've wanted to get around to for a
long time. I'm busier than ever these days so I can't take it
on right now for sure. If you do decide to get busy on it, drop
by the Derelict forums[1] if you need any help. You could email
me, too, but I imagine that any advice I give you could be
useful for others wanting to work on a Derelictified binding.
