Linux and htod

[yawniek via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Thursday, 16 June 2016 at 19:04:38 UTC, bachmeier wrote:
> On Thursday, 16 June 2016 at 12:23:09 UTC, fbmac wrote:
>> How people use it on Linux, if htod is required to import C 
>> libraries and windows only?f
>
> Just to clarify, so as to prevent confusion by someone that 
> randomly stumbles across this post, you do not need htod, 
> dstep, or any other tool to call C libraries from D. dstep 
> generates bindings to C libraries for you.
>
> You can create the bindings yourself in your D source files, 
> and if you only want to call a couple of functions from a 
> particular C library, that's the most convenient. 
> http://dlang.org/spec/interfaceToC.html
>
> The wording of the question implies that one of these tools is 
> required to call into C libraries, which is not correct.

https://wiki.dlang.org/D_binding_for_C is also helpful
they should be put together.