Qt bindings for D

[Elvis Zhou]

On Sunday, 13 October 2013 at 12:39:55 UTC, Abdulhaq wrote:
> Hi guys
>
> a few months ago I tried to find working bindings for Qt and 
> the best I could see was qtd. I tried compiling it but it 
> didn't go too well on my Linux 64bit machine, and saw in the 
> forums that the original developers had ceased maintaining it. 
> Because I have been using Qt for around 10 years or so now 
> (mainly from python but a little C++ too) I had a go at getting 
> it to work again.
>
> It took a few weekends but I got the main examples going (Core, 
> GUI, XML etc) with Qt 4.8 and 2.062. I felt that I was having 
> to do some rewinding of where the original developers were 
> going (it seemed that they were trying to take QRect et al down 
> the struct route, but my to my newbie eyes it seemed doomed 
> because it was making assumptions about the way the C++ and D 
> compilers were laying out the struct data that didn't work on 
> my machine - but I could be wrong about that). Anyway I treated 
> it as an educational exercise and make QRect et al. regular 
> classes, and got it generally working again.
>
> Then real life took over again and I had to shelve the project, 
> but now I have a little spare time again. I suspect there are 
> other developers such as myself out there who are keen to try D 
> but would like to use it with Qt, so I thought I would let you 
> know what I had done in case others were interested. I'm kind 
> of hoping that someone will say that the job is already done, 
> but I suspect that is not the case.
>
> The original developers did a really great job of the wrapping 
> and left the build system in a really good state too. However, 
> there seems to be very little testing other than the standard 
> qt examples themselves, so I can't be sure exactly where the 
> wrapping stands. Although the original developers felt that it 
> had some way to go before being really useful, it seems to me 
> that they had achieved more than that and that some would want 
> to use it as it stood.
>
> Unfortunately the wrapping is based on QtJambi, which is now 
> dead, but anyway it's easy with hindsight isn't it.
>
> Is anyone else interested and can anyone help me with polishing 
> it? It needs testing, trying out on Windows, and some 
> improvements to the build system. I have very little time ATM 
> but it would be good to capture where I've got to so that 
> others could pick it up or just experiment with D and Qt.
>
> regards
> Abdulhaq

Is it Qt5 compatible?