Creating D bindings for a C library

[Andy Smith via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Wednesday, 25 November 2015 at 19:40:28 UTC, Joseph Rushton 
Wakeling wrote:
> On Wednesday, 25 November 2015 at 17:45:48 UTC, ponce wrote:
>> If doing it by hand, some tips here: 
>> http://p0nce.github.io/d-idioms/#Porting-from-C-gotchas
>
> Cool, thanks.  The stuff about using c_long and c_ulong is 
> particularly useful/relevant to my use-case, so it's good to be 
> reminded of that.

Hi Joseph,

How's things in Berlin? :-) I'm not sure how complex the C-Api 
you're wrapping is, but I have to say I found that writing a 
minimal (but complete) subset of an existing C-API to be quite 
straightforward and enjoyable. A plus point was that selecting 
only the useful minimal subset meant the D wrapper ended up being 
a lot cleaner and meant that unused (or undesirable) features 
simply weren't there in the wrapped API.

YMMV but it's one to bear in mind...

Cheers,

A.