WinAPI for druntime and OpenGL for deimos.

[Manu]

On 23 November 2012 13:15, Gor Gyolchanyan <gor.f.gyolchanyan at gmail.com>wrote:

> I'm translating OpenGL headers, taken from opengl.org (glcorearb.h,
> glext.h, wglext.h, glxext.h) and I'm going to translate WinAPI headers (all
> except DirectX and deprecated, like winsock1) after that.
>
> As we all know, the WinAPI binding in druntime as well as the static
> libraries of WinAPI, which come with DMD are in horrendous state.
>
> I can translate the headers with a bunch of moderately complex regexp
> search/replace operations, some manual tweaks and compilations with RDMD to
> ensure correctness.
>
> The questions are:
>     1. Can the DMD folks update the static libraries for WinAPI, so they
> match with what I'm gonna submit for druntime?
>     2. What requirements are there (except keeping WinAPI names
> unmodified) for the translated headers to end up in druntime?
>     3. Can the deimos folks please make an OpenGL repo so I can place my
> translated headers in there? Yes, I know the rules of deimos.
>

*Approve!*

The Win64 libs can use Microsoft's .lib files verbatim, since the Win64
compiler now uses the MS-COFF format.
So updating the win32 libs would be for x86 only.
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