On Monday, 6 June 2016 at 16:04:30 UTC, Jonathan Marler wrote:
I'm writing some platform specific D code and I've found that
what the druntime exposes for the windows platform is pretty
lean. I'm guessing that the purpose of the druntime version of
the windows api is to implement the minimum required to support
the windows platform and not meant to be a full-featured
interface to windows. Is this the case?
Erm, not since 2.070:
http://dlang.org/changelog/2.070.0.html#core-sys-windows
If so, is there a good library that someone has implemented to
support the full windows API? I think I remember there was one
a few years ago, but now I'm unable to find it. I think I
remember that the windows .lib files installed with dmd were
missing symbols/functions I needed so I had to use the ones in
the system32 directory installed with windows. I also had to
convert them to OMF (since optlink doesn't support COFF). I'm
just wondering if someone can shed some light on this, it's
just been a while and google didn't seem to be much help so
pointers in the right direction would be much appreciated.
Thanks.
This is the (former URL of the) library you are thinking of:
http://www.dsource.org/projects/bindings
Or you might've used my GitHub mirror:
https://github.com/CS-svnmirror/dsource-bindings
https://github.com/CS-svnmirror/dsource-bindings-win32
It has been intergrated into Druntime as the core.sys.windows
package in 2.070.
