Will I try again? and also C header files.

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2013-05-31 09:18, SeanVn wrote:
> I looked at the D programming language a few years ago and though it was
> good.  Then I ran into trouble.  The language was in a state of flux.  I
> would write code and with the next version of D it would no longer
> work.  The same thing was happening to people who were writing tools
> such as IDE's for D and I guess most of them just gave up.
> That was then.
> I hope now things have settled down. I will look at the language for a
> couple of days.  I presume I now only have to look at D2 and Phobos and
> not the previous 4 way split of D1/D2/Phobos/Tango.
> I have a specific engineering application I want to develop. I want to
> pick a programming language that will give me the cleanest and most
> maintainable code possible.  I want to use the IUP GUI library.  That is
> a shared library that has C headers.  I presume I will be able to call
> the dll functions easily in D2? Maybe I will only have to make some
> minimal changes to the C header files to get them to work with D2?

You need to convert the C header files to D modules. Or the actual 
declarations you want to use. There's a tool available to do that:

https://github.com/jacob-carlborg/dstep

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/Jacob Carlborg