Standardized and automatic generation of Windows SDK headers

Andre Pany andre at s-e-a-p.de
Sun Feb 23 13:09:09 UTC 2020


On Saturday, 22 February 2020 at 09:53:08 UTC, rikki cattermole 
wrote:
> On 22/02/2020 10:39 PM, rikki cattermole wrote:
>> We don't need Microsoft's help for this.
>> 
>> The frontend should be augmented to support IDL based creation 
>> of the AST.
>> 
>> Everything that we need is in WinAPI.
>> 
>> It is not an LDC specific issue.
>
> Just to clarrify:
>
> You would compile the IDL files to typelib via the MIDL 
> compiler, these are what you distribute.
>
> You will then load the typelib file via i.e. LoadTypeLib or 
> LoadRegTypeLib which uses the registry to look it up.

Does it make sense to propose this as GSOC project?
https://forum.dlang.org/post/uxxnxpcsxfsaqqtlikmw@forum.dlang.org

Kind regards
Andre


More information about the digitalmars-d-ldc mailing list