DStep - Bindings Generator 0.0.1

[Leandro Lucarella]

Jacob Carlborg, el  8 de July a las 13:13 me escribiste:
> On 2012-07-07 23:20, Walter Bright wrote:
>
> >I think this is potentially a big deal.
> >
> >If it can be made complete enough, I'd like to add support into D for
> >it, so you could do things like:
> >
> >     import "stdio.h";
> >
> >and the D compile would fork/exec Dstep, generate the corresponding .d
> >file, and import the .d file.
>
> How is this going to work, is it going to be an optional feature? I
> mean, this will add DStep (D and Clang) as dependencies to DMD.
>
> DStep is built to be used as a library, I can easily create a C API
> which can be used directly by DMD. No need for creating a new
> process. I can also make DStep give back the translate D code, no
> need for creating temporarily D files.

This can also be done by just dumping the generated code to stdout.
Then any application can use the output without using any temporary
files. Pipes for the win!

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