How do I call a C++ struct default constructor from D?

[Atila Neves via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Tuesday, 7 February 2017 at 10:46:24 UTC, kinke wrote:
> On Tuesday, 7 February 2017 at 10:15:09 UTC, Atila Neves wrote:
>> I can declare a C++ struct like so:
>>
>> extern(C++, mynamespace)
>> struct Foo {
>>    //...
>> }
>>
>> But... I don't want to repeat the initialisation code for that 
>> struct's default constructor. I can't declare one in D because 
>> D doesn't allow default constructors for structs. What's my 
>> way out? Thanks,
>>
>> Atila
>
> I'm afraid there's no way out. I summarized some of my C++ 
> interop findings incl. default constructor here: 
> http://forum.dlang.org/thread/nqxsdehlydizatoprrax@forum.dlang.org

Ugh, I was afraid of that. I ended up having to write (!) a C++ 
function that returned the default-initialised struct and called 
that from D.

It got uglier soon after...

I've only every done trivial C++ integration before. As soon as I 
tried something "real" it all broke down incredibly fast. 
Probably going to have to file some bugs on name mangling.


Atila