WindowsAPI as dub package

[winuser via Digitalmars-d]

this is the kind of answer you get from the linux guys. there
seems to be no interest in windows, so - you are on your own.
windows is the ugly orphan here.


On Friday, 19 September 2014 at 13:11:55 UTC, Paul Z. Barsan
wrote:
> On Friday, 19 September 2014 at 12:37:25 UTC, evilrat wrote:
>
>> there is no FULL WinAPI in Phobos(just too big for std lib), 
>> but everything(almost) required for cairo is already there. 
>> why do we need full WinAPI if cairo just uses few structs for 
>> non critical stuff like fonts and icons description?
>>
>> and if you REALLY need whole WinAPI just get those dsource 
>> bindings and set up as import path in dmd config.
>>
>> as for documentation, i don't think ddoc insert docs for 
>> public imports modules like std.c.windows.windows...
>
> Don't get mad buddy, I'm just asking for other opinions...
>
> What if I want to make a library that uses cairoD ? I will 
> carefully instruct all my clients to alter dmd.conf and declare 
> some structs here and there and some export declarations in 
> client code? Sorry, but those are hacks and don't look good in 
> client code. It should work out of the box with dub. The reason 
> for me being sceptical about std.c.windows.windows is that on 
> the linux side of things, cairoD was importing std.c.linux.X11 
> and on my machine the X11 bindings were not there. They went to 
> deimos and there is an "x11" dub package which is a clone of 
> deimos.X11 ...