DPP on the D Blog

[Andrea Fontana]

On Friday, 19 April 2019 at 09:04:50 UTC, Atila Neves wrote:
> On Tuesday, 9 April 2019 at 21:11:28 UTC, DanielG wrote:
>> re: the difficulties of interfacing D with certain types of 
>> C/C++ code ...
>>
>> Has anybody looked into something like a JavaCpp[1] approach 
>> for D?
>>
>> Instead of trying to get D to speak directly with C++, or 
>> translating C/C++ headers to D, why not use special annotated 
>> D code to generate a middleman .cpp file, which then exports a 
>> D-friendly interface? Then all the dirty work gets handled by 
>> a C++ compiler.
>>
>> Wouldn't that be an order of a magnitude easier to implement?
>>
>> [1]: https://github.com/bytedeco/javacpp
>
> I've considered this, and am still considering it, despite not 
> having heard of javacpp before. Thanks for the link, I'll take 
> a look.

Also SWIG (for d too) does something like this.