Updates to the WindowsAPI translation instructions; D2 only?

[Mike Parker]

On Thursday, 1 August 2013 at 20:59:31 UTC, Stewart Gordon wrote:

> Along these lines, I'm thinking of making a few more changes:
>
> - Just use the D const pointer syntax where we need it, rather 
> than this CPtr template that was made for D1 compatibility.
>
> - Declare all constants as enums, in order to force inlining.

+1 on both. When I dropped D1 support from Derelict, this is 
exactly what I did.
>
> - Define a mixin template along the lines of __AW in newer 
> versions of MinGW, so that
>
>     version (Unicode) {
>         alias QwertW Qwert;
>     } else {
>         alias QwertA Qwert;
>     }
>
> can become simply
>
>     mixin DECLARE_AW!("Qwert");
>

I would be cautious about doing this. I know that multiple string 
mixins can have a noticeable impact on compile time. I don't know 
if that holds to the same scale for template mixins, but given 
the size of the Win32 bindings I would want to be sure before 
implementing it. I would want to make compile time a top 
priority. If everyone were always compiling the bindings as a 
library, it wouldn't be such a concern. But when using build 
tools which compile imports along with the app source, it can 
become an issue.