On Thursday, 2 March 2017 at 02:27:03 UTC, Jordan Wilson wrote:
Ah yes, I think you explain the difference between
wrapper/binding in one of the Derelict docs.
I'm currently working through a ebook on Game Dev with
SFML...the examples are all C++.
I don't have any trouble translating it to the equivalent C
bindings (so far anyway), but perhaps in the long run using
dsfml will be easier (for example, I found using Iup4d easier
than the straight C Iup bindings).
Yes, that's what wrappers are for :-) Plenty of people have built
wrappers on top of the Derelict bindings. I have my own little
SDL and GLFW wrappers I use for throw away projects. Makes the
code cleaner and easier on the eyes (C APIs can be ugly).
Jeremy did a great job with DSFML. When I first implemented
DerelictSFML, there was a DMD bug on Linux 64-bit that caused
crashes when passing structs to functions by value, which bits of
the CSFML API require. That made the binding effectively unusable
on Linux. Jeremy implemented his own C binding (DSFML-C) which
eliminated the pass-by-value bits and then built DSFML on top of
that. IIRC the bug has been fixed since then, so I don't know if
DSFML is using CSFML directly now or not.
