WinAPI for druntime and OpenGL for deimos.

[Jonathan M Davis]

On Friday, November 23, 2012 15:15:41 Gor Gyolchanyan wrote:
> 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 am not all that well acquainted with all of the issues involved with the 
Win32 API, so I'm probably not the best qualified to chime in on how they 
should be handled. However, I would point out that given that the Win32 API is 
effectively the system layer API for Windows, it should be fully supported in 
druntime (just like glibc should be fully supported for Linux by druntime), 
and as Walter points out, such a layer should be thin rather than trying to fix 
anything (that's the job of Phobos or other wrapper libraries). And since 
we're about to have 64-bit Windows support, druntime should be updated with 
whatever C prototypes are in the 64-bit Windows API (and I really don't know 
how those relate to the Win32 API other than the fact that as I understand it, 
64-bit Windows still uses some version of the Win32 API).

So, I would hope that the various Windows Gurus around here could come to an 
agreement on how the Windows API bindings should be put into druntime and then 
someone (or several someones) would take the time to implement that. I don't 
think that we should continue with the approach that anyone doing anything 
serious with the Win32 API has to use a 3rd party project to do it. OS-level 
functions should be part of druntime for every OS that we support, and it's 
worthy of a bug report every time that we find an OS-level function that is not 
in druntime.

- Jonathan M Davis