[Cabal]

Hi,

I don't know if dsource.org is the appropriate host for this project but here goes...

I have a hankering after writing some D wrappers for basic cross platform functionality - threads and sockets to start with. But I definitely don't grok the apparent desire of the D community to continuously re-define C library interfaces. I shudder at the very thought of all the 'extern (C)' blocks I've seen for the individual functions a D module is using.
So, having decided I wasn't having any of that I implemented 'h2d' which, surprisingly, does a reasonable job of automatically converting preprocessed C headers into something that dmd doesn't barf on.
The reason I hesitate about this site being the correct one for me and my baby is that it is written in C++, and more specifically, boost::spirit (if nothing else I've learned to both love and hate boost::spirit over the past 2 or 3 weeks)

So how about it? Am I in the wrong/right place? Is anyone interested in lending a hand?

Caveats:
I'm a *nix programmer. This probably (almost certainly in fact) won't do the business for windows headers, though there's no reason why it shouldn't be extended to cover various Windows'isms.
I've only tried it on the headers that I've been trying to use (pthread.h and netdb.h, which are of respectable size once preprocessed) - read: I've added conversions and transformations until dmd will parse the resulting module and allow me to call functions, but there's no crap like 'if (name == "netdb.h") { do netdb stuff... } else { ... }'.
It isn't blindingly fast - but it can parse a whole file while you're still writing your first 'extern (C)'

[Cabal]

If I were the sensitive sort I'd be feeling pretty rejected by now

Has no-one got a use for this thing? Not even a little bit of a use?

[brad]

I can definitely set up the project for you. I would attempt to use it to try to wrap Expat headers.

Let me know if you have a name and some code to check into the project. Everything keys off of the project name right now...
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[Cabal]

I thought 'h2d' might be appropriate - and nothing comes up under that name on freshmeat...

I'll have a quick look at what it makes of the expat headers after I get the opengl headers sorted

[qbert]

Thats a huge task ( C header conversion ) , I would defintly use it but i couldnt offer anything more than bug reports.

C

[clayasaurus]

a h to d conversion tool would be highly appreciated. its the project that everyone needs but no one wants to do.

oh, and about extern (C) blocks and windowisms. i program on linux, but i don't need to do extern (C) in front of all my functions, rather i do

version(linux)
extern (C):

version (Windows)
extern (Windows):

this will cause the whole C header file to be either extern C or Windows, depending on the system. never tested it on windows but the linux part works.