Porting VisualD to Windows 8 and Visual Studio 11

[Roman D. Boiko]

On Sunday, 10 June 2012 at 16:51:23 UTC, Rainer Schuetze wrote:
> As you don't need the VS2012 SDK or the Windows 8 SDK to build 
> Visual D, it does not seem urgent to do the translations, but 
> it might be nice to have them as this is a fast way to update 
> the interface headers to a new OS version. The recent version 
> of the converter also translates "#ifdef _WIN64" to 
> "version(Win64)" instead of throwing the code out, but I have 
> not done a lot with it yet.
I wanted to experiment with VisualD a bit to check whether it is 
possible to make use of my other project 
(https://github.com/roman-d-boiko/dct, currently very early 
draft) from VisualD.

Are these SDKs needed for developing VisualD on Windows 8 RC with 
Visual Studio 11 RC? This setup is the one I use most often.

> So far I have the beta of VS 2012 installed, and from the files 
> you added to the translation, it seems that the release 
> candidate has a few more files. I'll update my VS11beta to 
> VS2012rc and will have a look.
I didn't include all required files yet.

> At first glance, your way to translate the shared/um files 
> seems fine, but I have yet to understand the text replacements.
These are dirty, I tried to move fast without polishing.

Basically, either a block of text from some file is commented out 
when it generates compiler error, or some block (`open`) is 
replaced with equivalent starting from `/+`, and the other 
(`close`) with the one ending `+/`, so that everything between 
them is commented out.

I think some blocks could be converted to the D equivalents, but 
I don't have experience with this.

> Those _null_terminated_ annotations (and similar) should 
> probably be translated to their Win7 SDK version identifier 
> __nullterminated. That way they might get handled correctly by 
> the regex expressions.
Would be nice to know the correct mapping for various 
annotations. So far I tried to mimic code already present in 
VisualD.

> Rainer
Thanks!