WinAPI for druntime and OpenGL for deimos.

[Gor Gyolchanyan]

I agree, that WinAPI binding from dsource.org is very close to what needs
to be in druntime. I'll look into it. That's why I decided to bind the
OpenGL headers first (because it needs manual binding more, then WinAPI).
Derelict is heavily packed with auxilliary stuff, that makes the everyday
use of OpenGL quite easy, but it's not a direct translation and has some
overhead. And the OpenGl headers are FAR FAR FAR simpler and smaller then
WinAPI ones. I'm half-way through with OpenGL.


On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 5:09 PM, Vladimir Panteleev <
vladimir at thecybershadow.net> wrote:

> (Disclosure: I contributed to this project)
>
> The Win32 bindings are excellent. I believe your points are invalid.
>
>
> On Friday, 23 November 2012 at 11:43:21 UTC, Gor Gyolchanyan wrote:
>
>> 1. It has some pragma(lib, ...) declarations which aren't being met and
>> which assume some things, that aren't true.
>>
>
> The libraries are here:
> http://dsource.org/projects/**bindings/browser/trunk/lib<http://dsource.org/projects/bindings/browser/trunk/lib>
>
> And the definition files for these libraries are here:
> http://dsource.org/projects/**bindings/browser/trunk/def<http://dsource.org/projects/bindings/browser/trunk/def>
>
>
>  2. It uses version identifiers to determine the, you guessed it, version
>> of
>> Windows in question. This is very bad, since it won't compile without at
>> least some version identifiers
>>
>
> This is how the C headers work. The targeted Windows version is a
> preprocessor define.
>
> It compiles just fine without any version identifiers, but it will target
> an old Windows version (95 or 98).
>
>
>  and I'm sure we can make the OS version
>> available at compile-time to obviate the need for those version
>> identifiers.
>>
>
> This is a horrible idea. YOU ARE NOT TARGETING THE ENVIRONMENT YOU ARE
> BUILDING FROM!
>
>
>  3. It includes tons of obsolete stuff, that cannot and will not be used
>> ever, which are hard to track down and extract.
>>
>
> These headers have a long development history and are generally rather
> polished. You are suggesting to throw away all that and replacing them with
> something of your own?
>
>


-- 
Bye,
Gor Gyolchanyan.
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