On Thursday, 12 January 2017 at 04:54:18 UTC, DRex wrote:
Hi,
I am trying to link C and D (using GCC and GDC) and I am
wondering (I could find no answers on google) if it is possible
to compile C headers into object files and link them to D? I
have a large code base of C headers and am not at a point where
I can translate them all to D in one go, so I need to be able
to link to the headers.
Thanks.
You can't compile headers. You compile source files. Do that, and
yes, you can link object files and libraries with your compiled D
code. D uses the same file formats and linkers as C.
However, the D compiler needs to know what symbols are available
for you to use on the C side, so you any C functions you want to
call and types you want to use have to be translated to D. You
can do it manually or use a tool like DStep to do the bulk of the
work for you. See the links in the forum post at [1] for more
info.
[1] http://forum.dlang.org/post/[email protected]
