Calypso: Direct and full interfacing to C++

[Kelly via Digitalmars-d-announce]

Hello Elie,

Elie...I added some more examples for some of the tests in 
libstdc++ to a new PR. The main reason for this is that iterators 
for lists and vectors work now (for those that were keeping 
track, they didn't work last month or thereabouts). This makes 
things work quite well for several of the STL files now.

I thought I would also point out, to those that are following 
this thread, that I have tried at least a half dozen libraries 
(like zeromq, vecmathlib, dlib, etc.) and I haven't been able to 
get any of them to work for anything really meaningful. There is 
still one fairly major compilation error in the ScopeChecker that 
keeps popping up for all of these libs and a few STL files. I 
just wanted to point this out, as it seems from a couple 
comments, that people might be expecting to be able to just use 
C++ libs with Calypso straight away, and that isn't quite the 
case today. Some impressive stuff does work though...check out 
the libstdc++ examples.

So, my point is that while some impressive things compile (like 
CImg, which is a 50,000 line header file!! ... actually you need 
to comment out 3 lines of preprocessor code but close enough) and 
you might be able to instantiate a few classes and/or templates, 
I don't think any significant lib will actually work 
out-of-the-box with Calypso right now...but it is very close, I 
think.

I just wanted to be clear about this so that there isn't too much 
of a shock for anyone trying to use Calypso right away :)

Any automatic build script would be nice to have Laeeth :)

Once useful portions of a 'popular' (or requested) C++ lib work 
with Calypso, I will be happy to write up a step by step 
tutorial, but I don't think it is quite at that point yet.

Thanks,
Kelly

On Thursday, 16 April 2015 at 16:42:42 UTC, Elie Morisse wrote:
> On Thursday, 16 April 2015 at 06:43:25 UTC, Suliman wrote:
>> Could anybody wrote very simple tutorial, that show how to use 
>> any popular C/C++ lib without binding? I mean step by step 
>> manual.
>>
>> Also it would be nice to get binary builds for Windows to test.
>
> Suliman sorry for keeping you waiting :)
> I'll be spending the evening installing MSVC and Qt Creator, 
> and building Calypso for Windows users to play with and to help 
> with testing. Expect binaries tomorrow.
>
> The usage should be clear just by looking at and building the 
> examples in tests/calypso.