DStep - Bindings Generator 0.0.1

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2012-07-08 23:22, Jonathan Andrew wrote:

> The only disadvantage to the single-file limitation is that in the case
> of GTK at least, it has preprocessor directives to keep you from just
> #include-ing the single file you want to convert, so I just used sed to
> strip out all the #error directives that come up and force it to do my
> bidding. I understand DStep doesn't deal with preprocessor yet, but as
> far as the CLang front-end it uses goes, it might be helpful to find a
> way to turn off #error-s.
>
> sed -i 's/#error/\/\//g' *.h

I added an enhancement request for this:

https://github.com/jacob-carlborg/dstep/issues/3

> The next step was to rename all the D reserved words that GTK used as
> function arguments - in, out, function, and align are the only ones I
> can think of off the top of my head. Easy fix for the user (by no means
> am I complaining), but if you want to streamline the conversion,
> automatically renaming these kinds of arguments might be a helpful option.

I added this to the issue list as well:

https://github.com/jacob-carlborg/dstep/issues/1

> Then, renaming all the duplicate empty struct{} entries in some of the
> files. You already know about this, but it was probably the most
> time-consuming part of the process for converting GTK, at least. I
> couldn't think of an easy way to automate this on my end, because some
> of the empty structs were necessary to get it to compile.

BTW, do you have an example of the C code that causes these empty structs?

> Finally, putting import statements in all the .d files after I was done.
> Still a long way to go on this (500 files).

Imports are already added for most of the files in the C standard 
library. I plan to add support for other files as well. Hopefully this 
can be done.

> Sorry for the long post, this is probably obvious stuff to everybody
> else, but I was really impressed with DStep - thank you for creating it!
>
> -Jon


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/Jacob Carlborg