On 2013-05-31 09:18, SeanVn wrote:
I looked at the D programming language a few years ago and though it was good. Then I ran into trouble. The language was in a state of flux. I would write code and with the next version of D it would no longer work. The same thing was happening to people who were writing tools such as IDE's for D and I guess most of them just gave up. That was then. I hope now things have settled down. I will look at the language for a couple of days. I presume I now only have to look at D2 and Phobos and not the previous 4 way split of D1/D2/Phobos/Tango. I have a specific engineering application I want to develop. I want to pick a programming language that will give me the cleanest and most maintainable code possible. I want to use the IUP GUI library. That is a shared library that has C headers. I presume I will be able to call the dll functions easily in D2? Maybe I will only have to make some minimal changes to the C header files to get them to work with D2?
You need to convert the C header files to D modules. Or the actual declarations you want to use. There's a tool available to do that:
https://github.com/jacob-carlborg/dstep -- /Jacob Carlborg
