On Sunday, 13 October 2013 at 12:39:55 UTC, Abdulhaq wrote:
Hi guys
a few months ago I tried to find working bindings for Qt and
the best I could see was qtd. I tried compiling it but it
didn't go too well on my Linux 64bit machine, and saw in the
forums that the original developers had ceased maintaining it.
Because I have been using Qt for around 10 years or so now
(mainly from python but a little C++ too) I had a go at getting
it to work again.
It took a few weekends but I got the main examples going (Core,
GUI, XML etc) with Qt 4.8 and 2.062. I felt that I was having
to do some rewinding of where the original developers were
going (it seemed that they were trying to take QRect et al down
the struct route, but my to my newbie eyes it seemed doomed
because it was making assumptions about the way the C++ and D
compilers were laying out the struct data that didn't work on
my machine - but I could be wrong about that). Anyway I treated
it as an educational exercise and make QRect et al. regular
classes, and got it generally working again.
Then real life took over again and I had to shelve the project,
but now I have a little spare time again. I suspect there are
other developers such as myself out there who are keen to try D
but would like to use it with Qt, so I thought I would let you
know what I had done in case others were interested. I'm kind
of hoping that someone will say that the job is already done,
but I suspect that is not the case.
The original developers did a really great job of the wrapping
and left the build system in a really good state too. However,
there seems to be very little testing other than the standard
qt examples themselves, so I can't be sure exactly where the
wrapping stands. Although the original developers felt that it
had some way to go before being really useful, it seems to me
that they had achieved more than that and that some would want
to use it as it stood.
Unfortunately the wrapping is based on QtJambi, which is now
dead, but anyway it's easy with hindsight isn't it.
Is anyone else interested and can anyone help me with polishing
it? It needs testing, trying out on Windows, and some
improvements to the build system. I have very little time ATM
but it would be good to capture where I've got to so that
others could pick it up or just experiment with D and Qt.
regards
Abdulhaq
Hi, my story is similar to yours.
but anyway long story short,
i recently managed to get it compiling again with qt 4.8 and dmd
2.063.2.
https://bitbucket.org/michaelc37/qtd-experimental
i think for the QRect problem i ended up passing pointers, i also
updated alot of the examples.
i'd like to have a look at your work where can i find it?.
