WinAPI for druntime and OpenGL for deimos.

[Gor Gyolchanyan]

See my previous posts in this thread regarding those.


On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 4:07 PM, Jacob Carlborg <doob at me.com> wrote:

> On 2012-11-23 12:15, Gor Gyolchanyan wrote:
>
>> I'm translating OpenGL headers, taken from opengl.org
>> <http://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.
>>
>>
> For OpenGL there's Derelict:
>
> http://www.dsource.org/**projects/derelict<http://www.dsource.org/projects/derelict>
>
> For WinAPI and DirectX there's the bindings project:
>
> http://www.dsource.org/**projects/bindings<http://www.dsource.org/projects/bindings>
>
> For translating headers there's DStep, but that doesn't work yet on
> Windows:
>
> https://github.com/jacob-**carlborg/dstep<https://github.com/jacob-carlborg/dstep>
>
> --
> /Jacob Carlborg
>



-- 
Bye,
Gor Gyolchanyan.
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