C++ Binding Generator

[ed]

On Tuesday, 18 February 2014 at 09:15:11 UTC, Abdulhaq wrote:
> 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?

Well I only know the Java wrapper as that is the one I'm trying 
to adapt. It uses reference counting and a custom garbage 
collector in the Java layer (vtkJavaGarbageCollector).

I'm looking at adapting this over to D. So far all goes well, 
Java -->> D is straight forward. It will get interesting though 
when things statr compiling :)

I'll post here if I get any further...

Cheers,
ed

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