Dynamic binding to the Mono runtime API

[Jacob Carlborg via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On 2017-06-03 23:44, extrawurst wrote:
> On Saturday, 3 June 2017 at 17:30:05 UTC, Jakub Szewczyk wrote:
>> Mono runtime is a cross-platform, open-source alternative to
>> Microsoft's .NET framework [1], and it can be embedded in other
>> applications as a "scripting" VM, but with JIT-compilation enhanced
>> performance and support of many languages such as C#, F# or IronPython
>> [2].
>> It provides a C API, so I've bound it to D as a Derelict-based
>> project, available at https://github.com/kubasz/derelict-mono, and as
>> a DUB package (http://code.dlang.org/packages/derelict-mono). It
>> currently wraps the Mono 5.0 API.
>> There's also a simple example of calling a C# main from D code, and C#
>> code calling a native function implemented in D.
>>
>> [...]
>
> Cool work! Thanks! Did u use dstep for the translation or manual labor?

I'm guessing no, since these bindings are using function pointers while 
DStep will translate function declarations to function declarations in D 
as well, not function pointers.

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/Jacob Carlborg