Interfacing D to existing C++ code

[Paolo Invernizzi via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Friday, 30 January 2015 at 04:08:56 UTC, Daniel Murphy wrote:
> "Walter Bright"  wrote in message 
> news:maed4o$2da6$1 at digitalmars.com...
>
>> >
>> > So constructors and destructors are mangled 'a la D' instead 
>> > of the C++ way.
>>
>> Please post this to bugzilla.
>
> The problems with constructors go beyond mangling, so the 
> current forced D mangling is intentional to prevent wrong-code 
> bugs.
>
> An approach that currently works is porting the code to D, 
> being careful to exactly match the layout and functionality.  
> When done right, this allows templated types to be constructed 
> with any type in either language and passed back and forth 
> without problems.
>
> This is what I've done for dmd's Array<T> in ddmd.

I've done the same for some matrix ctor of opencv: it's a pain 
but works...

The main problem I've found right now it's that sometime I'm 
forced to choose a struct in D mapping a class in C++ just to 
have the right mangling for const ref methods...