WinAPI for druntime and OpenGL for deimos.

[Gor Gyolchanyan]

And yes, I've already looked at OpenGL bindings in the same bindings
project. They're D1 and OpenGL 2.1 only.


On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 5:15 PM, Gor Gyolchanyan <
gor.f.gyolchanyan at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
>



-- 
Bye,
Gor Gyolchanyan.
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