Re: Is it possible to translate this API's C headers?
On Tuesday, September 18, 2018 7:39:40 AM MDT Atila Neves via Digitalmars-d- learn wrote: > On Monday, 17 September 2018 at 19:13:06 UTC, Jonathan M Davis > > wrote: > > On Monday, September 17, 2018 7:43:21 AM MDT Kagamin via > > > > Digitalmars-d-learn wrote: > >> try dpp https://github.com/atilaneves/dpp > > > > Since according to Mike's post, it's C++ code, dpp wouldn't > > help, because it currently only supports C and not C++. > > > > - Jonathan M Davis > > It does C++ as well, just not all (or even close at this point) > of it. I doubt it'd work on any real C++ codebase right now, but > who knows. It definitely won't if any of the headers use the > standard library, which is likely to happen. Well, the repo claims that it currently only does C - hence why I said that it will only do C (though even if it partially supports C++, odds are it's not enough to matter unless you know what you're doing - which the OP clearly doesn't, since they don't know C/C++). > It turns out that parsing C++ is a lot of work. Who knew? :P Yeah... - Jonathan M Davis
Re: Is it possible to translate this API's C headers?
On Tuesday, 18 September 2018 at 13:39:40 UTC, Atila Neves wrote: It does C++ as well, just not all (or even close at this point) of it. I doubt it'd work on any real C++ codebase right now, but who knows. It definitely won't if any of the headers use the standard library, which is likely to happen. It doesn't look like that, https://github.com/ultralight-ux/ultralight-0.9-api/blob/master/include/Ultralight/Vector.h - this is probably the most complex code there.
Re: Is it possible to translate this API's C headers?
On Monday, 17 September 2018 at 19:13:06 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote: On Monday, September 17, 2018 7:43:21 AM MDT Kagamin via Digitalmars-d-learn wrote: try dpp https://github.com/atilaneves/dpp Since according to Mike's post, it's C++ code, dpp wouldn't help, because it currently only supports C and not C++. - Jonathan M Davis It does C++ as well, just not all (or even close at this point) of it. I doubt it'd work on any real C++ codebase right now, but who knows. It definitely won't if any of the headers use the standard library, which is likely to happen. It turns out that parsing C++ is a lot of work. Who knew? :P
Re: Is it possible to translate this API's C headers?
On Monday, 17 September 2018 at 03:16:33 UTC, spikespaz wrote: Could one of you give me pointers about how to go about this? I have the dynamic link libraries, the static libraries, and the header includes. Every other language other than C++ will have the same problem as you interacting with this library, so you could follow this plan. Step 1 Chime in https://github.com/ultralight-ux/ultralight/issues/15 and wait until it is implemented: everyone will need this since its a C++ library hence unusable from any other language Step 2 Ask for binary releases in dynlib form, or build them yourselves. Step 3 Implement a BindBC or Derelict library
Re: Is it possible to translate this API's C headers?
On Monday, September 17, 2018 7:43:21 AM MDT Kagamin via Digitalmars-d-learn wrote: > try dpp https://github.com/atilaneves/dpp Since according to Mike's post, it's C++ code, dpp wouldn't help, because it currently only supports C and not C++. - Jonathan M Davis
Re: Is it possible to translate this API's C headers?
try dpp https://github.com/atilaneves/dpp
Re: Is it possible to translate this API's C headers?
On Monday, 17 September 2018 at 03:16:33 UTC, spikespaz wrote: There is a project that I wish to use from D (https://ultralig.ht). It's Electron, but with forked WebKit and the samples are very, very fast. This is a great compromise between wanting to have a very custom interface and not wanting to use the slow Electron/Sciter/Awesomium/WebView. I am having trouble porting the C headers though. Firstly, I barely know C at all, especially not enough to do this. The extent of my C knowledge is terminal TicTacToe game I made three years ago. I tried using all of the conversion tools under the "Interfacing with C" page of the wiki, but I'm getting import errors. Probably because the paths are all using "<>", expecting an include path from the compiler. I tried to solve this by refractoring the imports to use relative quoted paths. But even when I fixed that, I kept hitting miscellaneous problems with MSVC, LLVM, and every other dependency under the sun those conversion tools needed. So I figured that Windows was just a crappy ecosystem, and tried it on Linux. No easier. So now I'm here, a C noob, really wanting to use Adam's great project from the D language. The only barrier is my lack of knowledge in C. And I definitely do not have the means to port these headers by hand. Could one of you give me pointers about how to go about this? I have the dynamic link libraries, the static libraries, and the header includes. https://github.com/ultralight-ux/ultralight https://github.com/ultralight-ux/ultralight-0.9-api FYI, those are C++ headers, not C. The page you read will get you part of the way there, but the Interfacing to C++ page would be more relevant: https://dlang.org/spec/cpp_interface.html Of course, if you don't know C++ that will only get you so far. If these were C headers, I'd just go ahead and translate them myself, but C++ headers will require a higher time investment from me because I'm not up to speed on the current state of D's C++ interface. There are people here who are more well informed who might be able to help, but it's going to require more than a few tips in a forum post.
