On 8/20/14, 11:35 PM, Joakim wrote:
C++ support keeps coming up these days, with Andrei continually
stressing it as something to work on. How hard would it to be to write
a C++->D translator, to allow people to translate C++ libraries to D?
I've been using tools like DStep and looking at libdparse, which seem to
work very well. I just translated a C sample app from the Android NDK
to D, fairly simple stuff like turning -> into ., adding a default in a
switch statement, rewriting casts from C-style to D-style casts,
removing the struct label, nothing that couldn't be automated.
I'm sure there's stuff that'd need to be done by hand, but if you can
automate 97%, that's good enough. Could this be a viable option for
many cases?
I think the key here involves clang with hooks + a config file per C++
file to translate that instructs the translator how to proceed about
corner cases (e.g. expand this macro but not this other etc). -- Andrei
