RFC: initial release of dtoh

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2018-08-22 13:01, Mihails wrote:
> https://gitlab.com/mihails.strasuns/dtoh
> 
> Tool to grab all `extern(C)` declarations in a D module and generate C 
> header file based on it. Partially addresses 
> https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9285 but is intended to be much 
> more simple (no C++, no human-readable emphasis).
> 
> Main differences from version written by Adam some years ago:
> 
> - Uses DMD frontend as a library directly
> - Has tests
> 
> Former is quite intentional decision though I do expect it to be 
> controversial. Using json output requires parsing information that is 
> already present in DMD FE in a strongly typed way - and the only benefit 
> is that the tool becomes more decoupled from compiler. In my opinion, 
> this functionality _should_ be part of compiler itself, similar to .di 
> generation.
> 
> Sadly can't put it on code.dlang.org right now because there are no 
> tagged versions of http://code.dlang.org/packages/dmd to depend on, thus 
> have to resort to submodule.

Iain has a PR in DMD for generating C++ headers from extern(C++) 
declarations [1]. Perhaps join forces on this.

[1] https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/8591

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/Jacob Carlborg