Alex Rønne Petersen wrote: > Hi, > > I implemented a simple binding/wrapper for libffi in D a while > back[1]. We have successfully used this to implement native function > invocation in MCI's IR interpreter. I'm wondering if there is any > interest in making this a standard module in Phobos (std.ffi or so). > If so, I'm willing to put in some effort to sanitize and properly > document the API. > > This means that we will be depending on libffi. I don't know how > people feel about this. FWIW, the library is available on virtually > any POSIX system (including OS X). Only Windows doesn't have it.
Is it possible to add a plain conversion of the header files to Deimos https://github.com/D-Programming-Deimos? Adding a higher level wrapper on top of the plain conversion to Phobos may be a good idea. But ultimately a package manager should address these issues. Jens
