On Wednesday, 13 November 2013 at 22:46:45 UTC, Jonathan M Davis
wrote:
On Wednesday, November 13, 2013 23:01:58 Xavier Bigand wrote:
I work on XCB integration, so I think that I can add bindings
in deimos.
C headers are translated to d modules by using DStep or
manually?
If manually need I respect some syntactical rules?
It's completely project-dependent. Deimos is for D bindings to
C libraries.
They need to be the extern(C) declarations which correspond to
the C header
declarations without any D wrappers. Beyond that, how the
project is put
together or how the bindings are generated is really up to
whoever does the
header translation. DStep is new enough that I expect that most
of Deimos has
been converted by hand. There's also htod on Windows, but it
does a pretty
poor job, because it's D1-compatible (e.g. it doesn't handle
const right).
So, you can translate the headers however you want, and there
are no syntactic
rules. I'd say that you should follow the same file layout as
the actual C
headers (a one-to-one translation of header.h -> header.d), but
how everything
is formatted in those files doesn't really matter. It's up to
you.
Ah, that reminds that the tutorial needs some good advice about
this. As far as I know, DStep is the current state of art.
