Re: typedef deprecated - now what ?

2011-12-31 Thread Stewart Gordon 

On 30/12/2011 10:35, Stephan wrote:

is there a template or something in phobos to get the same typesafe
behaviour of good old typedef ?


Could someone please provide a link to the thread with the reasons for 
deprecating typedef?  There are too many threads with the words 
typedef and deprecate in them for me to find it easily.


Stewart.

Re: Programming on OSX

2011-12-31 Thread Jacob Carlborg 

On 2011-12-31 00:50, Joel Christensen wrote:

I've got an Mac with OSX. But I have a few problems with using it with D.

1. I haven't got any media programming going.


Could you please elaborate. Derelict is a library that contains bindings 
for OpenGL, OpenAL, SDL and DevIL among others.



2. The readln (etc) isn't much good, same problem as Linux. It can only
add characters and remove characters from the end.



--
/Jacob Carlborg

Re: Mixing D and C - Windows

2011-12-31 Thread Jakob Ovrum 

On Saturday, 31 December 2011 at 19:05:44 UTC, DNewbie wrote:

C program loads D dll
or
D program loads C dll
Is it possible?


Both are possible.

Here's how to create a DLL in D, usable from C:

http://dlang.org/dll.html

As for loading C symbols in a DLL from a D program, you must link 
against an import library of the DLL, and create an interface 
module (similar to a header file) with the C declarations. For 
example, if this is your C DLL:


---
#include stdio.h

__declspec(dllexport) void sayHello(const char* name)
{
   printf(hello, %s!, name);
}
---

Then your D interface module should look like this:
---
extern(C) void sayHello(const char* name);

---

The import library must be in the OMF format. The easiest way to 
get such an import library is to use the `impllib` tool which can 
be downloaded from here:


http://ftp.digitalmars.com/bup.zip

Re: Mixing D and C - Windows

2011-12-31 Thread Exec 
Jakob Ovrum Wrote:
 As for loading C symbols in a DLL from a D program, you must link 
 against an import library of the DLL, and create an interface 
 module (similar to a header file) with the C declarations.
Alternatively, you can load the DLL via the Windows API.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms684175%28v=vs.85%29.aspx