Windows API and druntime/Phobos

Marco Leise Marco.Leise at gmx.de
Thu Jan 26 06:33:19 PST 2012


Am 26.01.2012, 05:08 Uhr, schrieb Brad Roberts <braddr at puremagic.com>:

> On 1/24/2012 8:48 PM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
>> The level of support for the Windows API in druntime and Phobos is  
>> pretty low.
>> As I understand it, Windows users are pretty much forced to use
>> http://www.dsource.org/projects/bindings/browser/trunk/win32 if they  
>> need
>> comprehensive Win32 API bindings. druntime seems to be trying to define  
>> all of
>> the OS-specific stuff like that, but on top of it missing much of it,  
>> in the
>> case of the Win32 API, that's a _lot_ of functions, and I don't know if  
>> we
>> want to put that much in druntime. So, the question is, how do we want  
>> to
>> support the Win32 API in druntime and Phobos?
>>
>> Do we want to put all of the Win32 API bindings in druntime? If not,  
>> then do
>> we want to put them in Phobos? Or do we just want to send Windows  
>> developers
>> to a 3rd party library like the Win32 bindings project on dsource?  
>> Given that
>> they're OS bindings, I would _think_ that we'd want them in druntime,  
>> but I
>> don't know.
>>
>> Regardless, this is one of those issues which frequently plagues D  
>> Windows
>> developers, and we really should at least get a plan together as to how  
>> we
>> want to handle it.
>>
>> - Jonathan M Davis
>>
>>
>> P.S. A related pull request: https://github.com/D-Programming-
>> Language/druntime/pull/139
>
> We've got the posix api set in the runtime, not just the subset that the  
> runtime or phobos needs.  IMHO, windows should
> follow that pattern.  It might be large from a number of lines of  
> declarations standpoint, but who cares.

I tend to agree.


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