Will I try again? and also C header files.

[Rikki Cattermole]

On Friday, 31 May 2013 at 07:18:38 UTC, SeanVn wrote:
> I looked at the D programming language a few years ago and 
> though it was good.  Then I ran into trouble.  The language was 
> in a state of flux.  I would write code and with the next 
> version of D it would no longer work.  The same thing was 
> happening to people who were writing tools such as IDE's for D 
> and I guess most of them just gave up.
> That was then.
> I hope now things have settled down. I will look at the 
> language for a couple of days.  I presume I now only have to 
> look at D2 and Phobos and not the previous 4 way split of 
> D1/D2/Phobos/Tango.
> I have a specific engineering application I want to develop. I 
> want to pick a programming language that will give me the 
> cleanest and most maintainable code possible.  I want to use 
> the IUP GUI library.  That is a shared library that has C 
> headers.  I presume I will be able to call the dll functions 
> easily in D2?  Maybe I will only have to make some minimal 
> changes to the C header files to get them to work with D2?

I have some where floating around static bindings to IUP.
Includes macros converted as functions as well.
https://bitbucket.org/alphaglosined/libglosined
Take a look under iup directory.