Standardized and automatic generation of Windows SDK headers

[rikki cattermole]

On 24/02/2020 2:09 AM, Andre Pany wrote:
> 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

It depends.

If there is a suitable mentor that can handle the AST generation side, sure.