Talking to non-D libraries

[Anders F Björklund]

Chris wrote:

> Sorry, I usually forget to do it. As I said already: I currently use DMD 
> on Windows. I have also installed Cygwin GDC but it requires the 
> cygwin.dll so I prefer DMD for linux and I'm scared to compiles source 
> files :) at least on Windows, so I haven't tryied to compile MingGW with 
> D support.

I'm dabbling with GDC under MinGW myself, will package it if I succeed

> I see you have converted the OpenGL headers, was it difficult are there 
> any special cases?

Not too many, I have a perl script that did most of the translating.

> For OpenGL I use GLEW (http://glew.sourceforge.net/) and I might try to 
> convert it. That's why I'm asking.

It said "C++" on the box, so it might be somewhat trickier. Try it :-)

--anders