On Wednesday, 25 January 2012 at 19:16:34 UTC, Jonathan M Davis
wrote:
The level of support for the Windows API in druntime and Phobos
is pretty low. As I understand it, Windows users are pretty
much forced to use
http://www.dsource.org/projects/bindings/browser/trunk/win32 if
they need comprehensive Win32 API bindings. druntime seems to
be trying to define all of the OS-specific stuff like that, but
on top of it missing much of it, in the case of the Win32 API,
that's a _lot_ of functions, and I don't know if we want to put
that much in druntime. So, the question is, how do we want to
support the Win32 API in druntime and Phobos?
It seems to me that calling OS functions are expected to work out
of the box. This would preclude requiring a third party library.
I don't think it makes sense in Druntime. It isn't required for
the compiler to work that I know of. Maybe their are some Windows
functions used within druntime? Also what is there currently
isn't generating documentation.
Phobos already has std.windows, it just needs expanded.
