Create a wrapper around larger c-libraries

Alain De Vos devosalain at ymail.com
Sun Apr 24 15:13:15 UTC 2022


I'm currenlty experimenting about binding to C.
I have :
C-library:

mylib.h:
```
void libprintme(char *s);
```

mylib.c:
```
#include <stdio.h>
#include "mylib.h"
void libprintme(char *s){printf("%s",s);}
```

main.d:
```
extern(C) @nogc nothrow {
	void libprintme(char *s);
     alias pprintme=void function(char *s);
     __gshared pprintme cprintme=&libprintme;

}

extern(D) {
	void dprintme(string ds){
		alias dstring=string;
		alias cstring=char *;
		import std.conv: to,castFrom;
		cstring cs=castFrom!dstring.to!cstring(ds);
		(*cprintme)(cs);
		import core.stdc.stdio: printf;
		printf("World");
	}
```

Can this procedure be used for larger C-libraries ?
What is good , what is bad , what can be better. Feel free to 
elaborate ?

(It's the C-preprocessor with macro expansion which gives me 
sometimes a bit of a headache.)




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