DStep - Bindings Generator 0.0.1

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Wow at long last!

On Saturday, 7 July 2012 at 21:20:53 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 7/7/2012 7:47 AM, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
>> DStep is a tool for translating C and Objective-C headers to D 
>> modules. It uses
>> libclang for lexing/parsing and AST traversal. This means it 
>> handles everything
>> that Clang itself can handle, although this doesn't mean it 
>> will correctly
>> translate everything.
>>
>> I would consider this release alpha or beta. I'm releasing 
>> this now in hope I
>> get some feedback on what language features the tool can't 
>> handle.
>
> I think this is potentially a big deal.
>
> If it can be made complete enough, I'd like to add support into 
> D for it, so you could do things like:
>
>     import "stdio.h";
>
> and the D compile would fork/exec Dstep, generate the 
> corresponding .d file, and import the .d file.
>
> Some issues:
>
> 1. Passing macro definitions to Dstep
>
> 2. The name "Dstep" has no obvious relationship to what it does.
>
> 3. The -o flag is not necessary. Just "do the right thing" when 
> you see the filename extension.
>
>
> In fact, we could make it a general facility, where if D sees:
>
>     import "filename.ext";
>
> that it fork/exec's the program:
>
>     ext_to_D filename.ext tmpfile.d
>
> and them imports tmpfile.d.