Windows bindings

Max Haughton maxhaton at gmail.com
Sat Feb 13 02:32:03 UTC 2021


On Saturday, 13 February 2021 at 02:08:33 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev 
wrote:
> On Saturday, 13 February 2021 at 00:32:30 UTC, Rumbu wrote:
>> I recently started a new project for Windows bindings [1] 
>> based on metadata generated by Windows Metadata Project [2].
>
> Very cool!
>
> Could this project be viable to replace the manually-maintained 
> bindings we have in Druntime (core.sys.windows)? They would 
> have to retain compatibility (and therefore be a strict 
> upgrade).
>
> If so, then your questions have easy answers - just do what the 
> existing bindings do (i.e. no D-fication, do the same things as 
> the old official C headers) :)

I vote for yes for both. If we make them D-ish then we could hit 
subtle ABI problems in the future.


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