On Saturday, 28 September 2019 at 09:18:24 UTC, Martin Brezeln
wrote:
Hello everyone,
i have a rather general question about how to approach the
attempt to create a binding for a foreign system, for which
bindings already exists for other languages than dlang.
To be more concrete: There is this Database i am using in some
recent projects: "Apache Cassandra" / "ScyllaDB" -
unfortunately, there is no binding for D (afaik "cassandra-d"
is incomplete and the development stands still).
However, There are some up to date bindings for other
programming languages
(https://docs.scylladb.com/using-scylla/scylla_drivers/).
Can someone with experience in this field give some advice?
Would it be possible to use (e.g.) the C++ Project to build
$SOMETHING for D?
Or would it be better to try to implement it yourself (based on
a paper or a existing binding)?
Looking forward for an interesting read :)
If this is a C library (I can't really tell for sure from the
linked page) you can use DStep to automatically create bindings:
https://github.com/jacob-carlborg/dstep
If you don't want bindings, but just want to #include the header
files, you can use dpp
https://github.com/atilaneves/dpp
For the most part, if you want to use C libraries in a project,
you shouldn't need to do much work. To do it manually, there's
this page
https://dlang.org/spec/interfaceToC.html
