Windows API and druntime/Phobos

[Jesse Phillips]

On Wednesday, 25 January 2012 at 19:16:34 UTC, Jonathan M Davis 
wrote:
> The level of support for the Windows API in druntime and Phobos 
> is pretty low. As I understand it, Windows users are pretty 
> much forced to use 
> http://www.dsource.org/projects/bindings/browser/trunk/win32 if 
> they need comprehensive Win32 API bindings. druntime seems to 
> be trying to define all of the OS-specific stuff like that, but 
> on top of it missing much of it, in the case of the Win32 API, 
> that's a _lot_ of functions, and I don't know if we want to put 
> that much in druntime. So, the question is, how do we want to 
> support the Win32 API in druntime and Phobos?

It seems to me that calling OS functions are expected to work out 
of the box. This would preclude requiring a third party library.

I don't think it makes sense in Druntime. It isn't required for 
the compiler to work that I know of. Maybe their are some Windows 
functions used within druntime? Also what is there currently 
isn't generating documentation.

Phobos already has std.windows, it just needs expanded.