DStep - Bindings Generator 0.0.1

[Artur Skawina]

On 07/07/12 23:20, Walter Bright wrote:
> In fact, we could make it a general facility, where if D sees:
> 
>     import "filename.ext";
> 
> that it fork/exec's the program:
> 
>     ext_to_D filename.ext tmpfile.d
> 
> and them imports tmpfile.d.

   import extern (C) "stdio.h";

which execs 

   dimport_C "stdio.h"

which returns a filename of a D module, which is then imported.

This way the importer can cache the result and doesn't need to
regenerate the D module until "stdio.h" or any dependency changes.


artur