Deimos rules?

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On Wednesday, 13 November 2013 at 22:46:45 UTC, Jonathan M Davis 
wrote:
> On Wednesday, November 13, 2013 23:01:58 Xavier Bigand wrote:
>> I work on XCB integration, so I think that I can add bindings 
>> in deimos.
>> 
>> C headers are translated to d modules by using DStep or 
>> manually?
>> If manually need I respect some syntactical rules?
>
> It's completely project-dependent. Deimos is for D bindings to 
> C libraries.
> They need to be the extern(C) declarations which correspond to 
> the C header
> declarations without any D wrappers. Beyond that, how the 
> project is put
> together or how the bindings are generated is really up to 
> whoever does the
> header translation. DStep is new enough that I expect that most 
> of Deimos has
> been converted by hand. There's also htod on Windows, but it 
> does a pretty
> poor job, because it's D1-compatible (e.g. it doesn't handle 
> const right).
>
> So, you can translate the headers however you want, and there 
> are no syntactic
> rules. I'd say that you should follow the same file layout as 
> the actual C
> headers (a one-to-one translation of header.h -> header.d), but 
> how everything
> is formatted in those files doesn't really matter. It's up to 
> you.

Ah, that reminds that the tutorial needs some good advice about 
this. As far as I know, DStep is the current state of art.