Yet another effort at translating the Win32 API headers

[Stewart Gordon]

Don Clugston wrote:
> Stewart Gordon wrote:
<snip>
>> I've just had a look.  I hadn't really thought about testing the 
>> translation, with there being so much to test and bits of the API to 
>> get to grips with in doing so.
> 
> What would be great would be a 'force extern' dmd option for linking: 
> ensure that every extern function actually exists in the import library.
> Right now you can write:
> extern (Windows) { void SomeOldGarbage(); }
> and it will compile without error. If we had such a feature, we could at 
> least check that all functions were defined correctly.

Good idea.

<snip>
>> I see you've begun to implement your "interim solution" on the Windows 
>> versions....
> 
> I didn't use the Perl script, I used my half-baked C2D converter to do 
> the initial conversion. It's a moderately correct preprocessor with an 
> regex replacement of the simple D types. #ifdef to static if is 
> something it does semi-automatically.
> 
> I still don't know what's the right way to do it.

Nor does anybody yet.

> Function definitions are OK, but those structs that have additional 
> members...

Do you mean structs that have members that are only defined in later 
Windows versions?  These will work in the same way - AIUI structs can 
contain version blocks just the same.

Stewart.

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