Re: complete win headers for 32/64 bit

2015-08-14 Thread Kagamin via Digitalmars-d-learn
http://code.dlang.org/packages/windows-headers - as a dub package.

complete win headers for 32/64 bit

2015-08-13 Thread learn via Digitalmars-d-learn
unfortunately i can't find a complete set of windows header files. maybe one should add a link for those headers if they exist - life is not linux or osx only.

Re: complete win headers for 32/64 bit

2015-08-13 Thread Adam D. Ruppe via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Thursday, 13 August 2015 at 16:28:15 UTC, learn wrote: unfortunately i can't find a complete set of windows header files. maybe one should add a link for those headers if they exist - life is not linux or osx only. I'm slowly working on getting them into the standard library. I'm probably

Re: complete win headers for 32/64 bit

2015-08-13 Thread learn via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Thursday, 13 August 2015 at 17:04:54 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: On Thursday, 13 August 2015 at 16:28:15 UTC, learn wrote: I'm slowly working on getting them into the standard library. I'm probably one or two more weekends away from getting it to work (it is harder than I thought because the

Re: complete win headers for 32/64 bit

2015-08-13 Thread anonymous via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Thursday, 13 August 2015 at 16:28:15 UTC, learn wrote: unfortunately i can't find a complete set of windows header files. maybe one should add a link for those headers if they exist - life is not linux or osx only. https://github.com/etcimon/windows-headers

Re: Win Headers

2013-12-12 Thread Mike Parker
On 12/12/2013 4:44 PM, frustrated2 wrote: thanks for your reply. its a shame that the language does not supply ready to use headers. i can live with missing libraries, but not with incomplete or non working bare minimal prerequisites to use it with an os. that is a sad and sorry state! I don't

Re: Win Headers

2013-12-12 Thread bearophile
Mike Parker: I would be content if DMD did not ship Win32 bindings at all, except for the minimal needed to implement cross-platform stuff in Phobos. As it stands, the static libs for the Win32 API that ship with DMD are old and don't include a good number of modern functions anyway. IMO,

Re: Win Headers

2013-12-12 Thread Rikki Cattermole
On Wednesday, 11 December 2013 at 09:04:32 UTC, frustrated2 wrote: Are there complete windows headers and if yes where can i find them and will they work for 64bit? I've also generated from Mingw64 windows static binding[1]. So it definitely will work with Windows 7 64bit. However I've only

Re: Win Headers

2013-12-12 Thread Regan Heath
On Thu, 12 Dec 2013 08:18:51 -, Mike Parker aldac...@gmail.com wrote: On 12/12/2013 4:44 PM, frustrated2 wrote: thanks for your reply. its a shame that the language does not supply ready to use headers. i can live with missing libraries, but not with incomplete or non working bare minimal

Re: Win Headers

2013-12-12 Thread frustrated2
I prefer languages with more batteries included - for sure. its a nice compiler, love the language, but i do not want to waste the time to do everything myself. even basic compilers (yuck) offer more tools, windows programming and db stuff than D. On Thursday, 12 December 2013 at 09:49:31

Re: Win Headers

2013-12-12 Thread evilrat
On Thursday, 12 December 2013 at 11:08:41 UTC, Regan Heath wrote: Does DMD support the M$ dll/lib format or is that still an issue? I know there is a conversion tool, but IIRC you have to pay for that.. this hassle was another reason I stopped using D for my personal projects. with -m64

Re: Win Headers

2013-12-12 Thread Mike Parker
On 12/12/2013 8:20 PM, frustrated2 wrote: I prefer languages with more batteries included - for sure. its a nice compiler, love the language, but i do not want to waste the time to do everything myself. even basic compilers (yuck) offer more tools, windows programming and db stuff than D. I

Re: Win Headers

2013-12-12 Thread Mike Parker
On 12/12/2013 8:08 PM, Regan Heath wrote: MinGW distros. Even with VC, you still have to download the Windows SDK separately. I don't believe this last statement is true. I am fairly certain that upon installing VC you have everything you need to call/use Win32 functions. The only reason to

Re: Win Headers

2013-12-12 Thread Regan Heath
On Thu, 12 Dec 2013 12:16:57 -, Mike Parker aldac...@gmail.com wrote: On 12/12/2013 8:08 PM, Regan Heath wrote: MinGW distros. Even with VC, you still have to download the Windows SDK separately. I don't believe this last statement is true. I am fairly certain that upon installing VC

Win Headers

2013-12-11 Thread frustrated2
Are there complete windows headers and if yes where can i find them and will they work for 64bit?

Re: Win Headers

2013-12-11 Thread evilrat
On Wednesday, 11 December 2013 at 09:04:32 UTC, frustrated2 wrote: Are there complete windows headers and if yes where can i find them and will they work for 64bit? there is mostly complete headers[1], however it is not and never be ready for x64. also there is Andrej Mitrovic's fork[2] of

Re: Win Headers

2013-12-11 Thread frustrated2
thanks for your reply. its a shame that the language does not supply ready to use headers. i can live with missing libraries, but not with incomplete or non working bare minimal prerequisites to use it with an os. that is a sad and sorry state! On Thursday, 12 December 2013 at 05:30:29 UTC,