Dub package with C code

[Laeeth Isharc via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Thursday, 24 September 2015 at 02:43:20 UTC, Sebastiaan Koppe 
wrote:
> I have just created bindings for libxlsxwriter, an c library 
> for creating excel files.
>
> Used the htod tool to do most of the work, and only had to 
> adjust some things - mainly because libxlsxwriter uses data 
> structures written in macro's.
>
> Right now I am making a dub package and I would like to aim for 
> convenience for end-users (read: me).
>
> Therefor I decided to include the compiled static library 
> inside the package. I only use Linux 64-bit myself, but this is 
> obviously limiting for other people.
>
> The other option I had was to include the whole c code, depend 
> on gcc or clang, and have dub  (somehow) first build 
> libxlsxwriter. But that seemed a bit too much...
>
> Another option would be to require end-users to build 
> libxlsxwriter themselves.
>
> What do you guys recommend?

nice work!

worth a little blog post on the experience so others can be 
inspired by and benefit from yours?