On Wednesday, 25 November 2015 at 21:19:51 UTC, Andy Smith wrote:
On Wednesday, 25 November 2015 at 19:40:28 UTC, Joseph Rushton
Wakeling wrote:
On Wednesday, 25 November 2015 at 17:45:48 UTC, ponce wrote:
If doing it by hand, some tips here:
http://p0nce.github.io/d-idioms/#Porting-from-C-gotchas
Cool, thanks. The stuff about using c_long and c_ulong is
particularly useful/relevant to my use-case, so it's good to
be reminded of that.
Hi Joseph,
How's things in Berlin? :-) I'm not sure how complex the C-Api
you're wrapping is, but I have to say I found that writing a
minimal (but complete) subset of an existing C-API to be quite
straightforward and enjoyable. A plus point was that selecting
only the useful minimal subset meant the D wrapper ended up
being a lot cleaner and meant that unused (or undesirable)
features simply weren't there in the wrapped API.
YMMV but it's one to bear in mind...
Cheers,
A.
PS - I forgot to insert the words 'by hand' in there somewhere.
Also for additional guidance aldacron has some good blog posts on
the wrapping process on the web somewhere. I pretty much used his
guidance when I started my experiments with wrapping and have to
say I was pretty satisfied with the end results :-)
