When is the Win API supported?

Vladimir Panteleev via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Mon Jan 25 10:18:48 PST 2016


On Monday, 25 January 2016 at 18:09:47 UTC, Igor wrote:
> On Monday, 25 January 2016 at 02:21:49 UTC, Rikki Cattermole 
> wrote:
>> On 25/01/16 2:46 PM, Igor wrote:
>>> When will the proper Win API be included in D? About how 
>>> long(months,
>>> years?)? Does it support seamless narrow and wide characters?
>>>
>>> I am not referring to the defunct win32 support already 
>>> included.
>>
>> You mean the MingW based bindings that is in 2.070?
>> https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/druntime/tree/v2.070.0-b2/src/core/sys/windows
>>
>> The only issue is for -m32 with import libs.

I've included the .def files that came with the Win32 bindings, 
and added them to the build, so many import libs will be 
supported already.

> How do I use it? I can't find any docs on it(The D page, at 
> least doesn't seem to have anything for windows in phobos 
> except charset.

When in C you would `#include <foo.h>`, in D you can `import 
core.sys.windows.foo;`, then just use it exactly like from C.



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