Using glibc headers with ImportC

[bachmeier]

On Saturday, 12 November 2022 at 15:08:22 UTC, qua wrote:
> On Saturday, 12 November 2022 at 14:57:23 UTC, Adam D Ruppe 
> wrote:
>> I still don't think that's been released yet, so if you aren't 
>> on the git master or at least the latest beta build it isn't 
>> going to work. Which dmd version are you running?
>
> I was running 2.098, I have just installed 2.100.2, which does 
> say that use of #include is not supported.
> I have tried too to preprocess hello.c with `gcc -E`, but dmd 
> is also unable to compile it preprocessed (with errors such as
>
> /usr/include/stdio.h(246): Error: found `__filename` when 
> expecting `,`
>
> ).
> Is there any reasonably simple way to compile files such as 
> this hello.c, or is it not ready yet? I'm not an experienced 
> programmer, so I mostly want to know if I'm doing something 
> wrong or if there's an alternative that doesn't require manual 
> translations from C to D.

You're going to need to use the nightly from here: 
https://github.com/dlang/dmd/releases/tag/nightly

While a lot of progress has been made, it's definitely not 
finished, so you may still encounter errors here and there.