Qt bindings for D

[Abdulhaq]

On Sunday, 13 October 2013 at 16:05:24 UTC, Elvis Zhou wrote:
> On Sunday, 13 October 2013 at 14:22:05 UTC, Abdulhaq wrote:
>> On Sunday, 13 October 2013 at 13:45:13 UTC, Elvis Zhou wrote:
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> Is it Qt5 compatible?
>>
>> I'd hope so, barring a few tweaks, but due to time constraints 
>> I haven't made any attempt at that yet. It certainly hasn't 
>> got any of the QML stuff though.
>>
>> The wrapper works by declaring classes and methods to be 
>> wrapped in XML files, so any new classes introduced in 4.9+ 
>> wil not be present.
>
> It will gain more attention if targeting Qt5 IMHO.


Agreed but that is a much bigger task than getting qtd/4.8 going 
well. As a long time Qt developer I'm very happy with 4.8 as a 
very classy cross-platform GUI, and having it as a solid option 
would make D a very interesting language for me - I don't need 
the convenience of the declarative option, or the mobile API. I'd 
really like to get VTK visualisation toolkit going too, but I 
guess than can wait for the Xmas hols :-)