D bindings for Shapefile C Library

[Craig Dillabaugh]

On Wednesday, 29 January 2014 at 14:09:20 UTC, Gary Willoughby 
wrote:
> On Wednesday, 29 January 2014 at 04:24:36 UTC, Craig Dillabaugh 
> wrote:
>> I've created bindings for the C Shapefile Library.  Shapefiles
>> are a format used commonly in vector based Geographic 
>> Information
>> Systems, often for data interchange. It is a pretty simple
>> library and it is my first effort at creating such bindings.
>>
>> https://github.com/craig-dillabaugh/shplib.d
>>
>> I've looked in Demios and code.dlang.org to see what the 
>> standard
>> setup for such bindings is, and while most are similar there
>> doesn't seem to be an accepted layout.  If anyone has a moment 
>> to
>> spare I would be happy if someone could have a look to see if
>> there are any obvious improvements that should be made.
>>
>> I plan to run a few more tests on my bindings, and once those 
>> all
>> work, I hope to add this to code.dlang.org.
>
> This is how i'm doing it:
>
> https://github.com/nomad-software/tcltk
>
> This is a binding for Tcl/Tk libs. I've included windows dll 
> import libraries in various formats (for different environments 
> and compilers) to make the build process easier. I've also kept 
> the c headers in the source folder but excluded them in the 
> package.json file (just in case). I've added one version (the 
> same as the c sources) for when the bindings supported an older 
> version but the latest version is in master.

Thanks. I've had a few requests to generate .lib files so I will 
see about that.  I don't do very much development on Windows, but 
this should be good practice for me.