Qt wrapper for D

[Gregor Richards]

John Demme wrote:
> Ritesh Nadhani wrote:
> 
> 
>>Hello
>>
>>We recently started working on a generic configuration tool and we were
>>planning to write it in D language. Now lot of our GUI bindings are
>>written in Qt. We would like to have a Qt wrapper for D but doing a google
>>didnt throw up anything.
>>
>>So we were wondering if writing a wrapper for Qt ourselves would be
>>manageable? Is it very complex to write a wrapper for Qt for D?
>>
>>Any pointers on how to start writing wrappers for languages? We dont have
>>any knowledge in this regard.
>>
>>Ritesh
> 
> 
> I don't know of any bindings for QT.  This is probably because it is a very
> complex C++ library, and D cannot call C++ code directly.  You might take a
> look at BCD, though:
> http://www.dsource.org/projects/bcd
> 
> Theoretically, you throw bcd at some C++ header files, and it'll create the
> C-layer for you.  I don't know how well it actually works, though.
> 
> If you do get bindings for QT working, please post them somewhere!  I'm sure
> that they'd be quite popular.  It think I've seen requests for it before.
> 

bcd.gen can't realisitically bind the Qt C++ headers. At least not now.

I would use bcd.gen to bind the QtC headers though. It's much, much 
easier than doing it by hand.

  - Gregor Richards