Question about win32, windows.d, user32 and kernel32

nobody nobody at mailinator.com
Wed Aug 23 04:59:02 PDT 2006


Stewart Gordon wrote:
> nobody wrote:
>> It seems to me as if std.c.windows.windows has the stuff which 
>> describes data structures and functions for kernel32. However I just 
>> had to pull some info out of the dmc include folder to work with 
>> clipboard related functions. I am curious why dmd links with user32 
>> and kernel32 but does not seem to have a D version of winuser.h?
> 
> Because translating the Win32 headers is a work in progress.
> 
> http://www.prowiki.org/wiki4d/wiki.cgi?WindowsAPI
> 
> Stewart.
> 

Thanks for the reply and the link. I can understand that translating the full 
collection of Win32 headers is a large task. I was curious why winuser in 
particular was not translated if kernel32 and user32 are linked by default for 
every build.



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