How to call a C function from D that takes a FILE * as an argument?

[Seb]

On Wednesday, 4 July 2018 at 02:08:11 UTC, Joe wrote:
> On Wednesday, 4 July 2018 at 01:58:15 UTC, Seb wrote:
>> So just add the declaration to your D file:
>>
>> ---
>> extern(C) void myCfunction(FILE* stream);
>> ---
>
> I do have a similar declaration in D.  It appears the problem 
> is that the C program I'm trying to convert passes stdout as 
> the argument and the D compiler complains somewhat like the 
> following:
>
>
> Error: function foo.main.myCfunction (shared(_IO_FILE)* stream) 
> is not callable using argument types (File)
>
> So I guess the question is what to pass instead of stdout.

Hmm, calling e.g. fprintf with stdout should just work:

---
void main()
{
     import core.stdc.stdio;
     fprintf(stdout, "Hello %s", "world".ptr);
}
---

Could you maybe provide your whole code?