On Tuesday, 31 March 2015 at 17:20:05 UTC, Charles wrote:
Hi guys,
What is the best (and/or official) source for win32 bindings?
I know there's this github project:
https://github.com/AndrejMitrovic/DWinProgramming; however, it
hasn't been touched in about 2 years. It's currently linked on
the wiki (http://wiki.dlang.org/D_for_Win32).
I'm also aware that there's core.sys.windows.windows, but the
documentation for this page is less than helpful:
http://dlang.org/library/core/sys/windows/windows.html. It also
seems to be missing portions of it that'd be useful (see github
here:
https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/druntime/tree/master/src/core/sys/windows).
So, perhaps, a better question is what do you use for win32
bindings? Are there any additional dependencies when building
apps with either of these (beyond something like user32.dll for
example)?
Thanks,
Charles
AFAIK, the bindings linked on the wiki page are the best you can
get. If you want to use static linking, you must also download
the latest Windows SDK (8.1) and transform winapi libs in OMF
format using coffimplib
(http://www.digitalmars.com/ctg/coffimplib.html)
Finally I ended up to use dynamic linking. When I need a function
not present in std.c.windows, I translate it to D from windows C
headers and I use the good old way to load it
(LoadLibrary/GetProcAddress). If you are using Visual D, there is
a nice menu item named "C++ Convert selection" that you can use
to translate in place structs or enums copied from win C++
headers.
