#include C headers in D code

[bachmeier]

On Monday, 9 April 2018 at 18:15:33 UTC, kinke wrote:
> On Monday, 9 April 2018 at 11:03:48 UTC, Atila Neves wrote:
>> Here's my blog post about my project that allows directly 
>> #including C headers in D*
>>
>> https://atilanevesoncode.wordpress.com/2018/04/09/include-c-headers-in-d-code/
>
> Certainly interesting. Is there a good reason why you didn't 
> look into Calypso though? It's restricted to LDC, okay, but its 
> approach of fusioning C++ and D parts at the AST and LLVM-IR 
> level seems far more promising to me - no need to translate the 
> C(++) parts to D and let the underlying D compiler parse & 
> analyze all that generated code again. And Calypso's C++ 
> support is apparently mature enough to interface with Qt5 (!)...

Aren't there limitations on what Calypso can do? I thought I read 
that it can't be made to work with all C code, but maybe I'm 
wrong... Of course, only working with LDC is itself a big 
restriction.