C++ Binding Generator

Abdulhaq alynch4047 at gmail.com
Tue Feb 18 01:15:10 PST 2014


On Tuesday, 18 February 2014 at 08:32:07 UTC, ed wrote:
> On Tuesday, 18 February 2014 at 06:44:19 UTC, ed wrote:
> [snip]
>
>>>
>>> Is your SWIG wrapping online somewhere? - I'd like to take a 
>>> look.
>>
>> https://github.com/lyrebirdsw/vtkdbind
>>
>> The SWIG bindings were left in a very bad state so they won't 
>> work at the moment. It should generate the D code and possibly 
>> compile but I don't think it will link I sort of gave up on it 
>> and decided to try the VTK wrapper generator.
>>
>> The last bindings I generated are in the repo under 
>> swigd/bindings/d
>>
>> Oh and some of the scripts will have a copyright in them, 
>> ignore it. It is just the automatic header our editors at work 
>> stamp in. It is all opensource, consider it BSD, I just 
>> haven't bothered putting any license in the files themselves.
>>
>> As for the VTK wrapper bindings they are convoluted but I'm 
>> making some headway. It is spread across C++/CMake files to 
>> complete the full process. The C++ creates a parser which 
>> extracts the required details, CMake then feeds the output of 
>> this into the wrapper generator.
>>
>> I have it generating half D / half Java at the moment. If I 
>> get it all D and compiling I'll upload it.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> ed
>
> Oh let me say this is real hack code I wrote for 
> experimentation only :D

Thanks for taking the effort to upload it! If you do get the VTK 
wrapper approach going then please do upload that. I'd really 
like to know how the wrapper generator deals with object 
ownership transferal, or is it using some kind of reference 
counting?



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