Once upon a time, this collaborative project to translate the Windows API headers into D was quite active.

http://www.prowiki.org/wiki4d/wiki.cgi?WindowsAPI

I think it had four or five contributors at one point.  But over the last month or three, there have only been minor updates.

Of course, the core stuff has been translated, though not all polished.  And I've just taken a few more modules.  I think it's time for contributors, both new and old, to bring the project to life again.

Please read the translation instructions.  The readme.txt file is probably rather out of date with the wiki page, but I hope to get this fixed soon.


While at it, there are a number of open discussions on the wiki page awaiting your feedback.  In particular, I consider the following discussions to be open:

- winsock/winsock2 - in particular, which should be imported by default
- meanings of the statuses - Don has come up with a decent system, does everyone agree that we should implement it?
- what to do with variable-length structs


I've noticed that two files have mysteriously appeared in the Dsource repository, both added by rko:

http://www.dsource.org/projects/bindings/browser/trunk/win32/format
http://www.dsource.org/projects/bindings/browser/trunk/win32/README.txt

The latter is not to be confused with readme.txt.  Does anybody know how these got in here?

Stewart.

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Stewart Gordon wrote:
> Once upon a time, this collaborative project to translate the Windows API headers into D was quite active.
> 
> http://www.prowiki.org/wiki4d/wiki.cgi?WindowsAPI
> 
> I think it had four or five contributors at one point.  But over the last month or three, there have only been minor updates.
> 
> Of course, the core stuff has been translated, though not all polished.  And I've just taken a few more modules.  I think it's time for contributors, both new and old, to bring the project to life again.

That would be great.  If it helps, I would commit to having Ares using these libraries in future releases.

> I've noticed that two files have mysteriously appeared in the Dsource repository, both added by rko:
> 
> http://www.dsource.org/projects/bindings/browser/trunk/win32/format
> http://www.dsource.org/projects/bindings/browser/trunk/win32/README.txt
> 
> The latter is not to be confused with readme.txt.  Does anybody know how these got in here?

They look like accidental check-ins.  I say delete them :-p


Sean

Sean Kelly wrote:
>> I've noticed that two files have mysteriously appeared in the Dsource repository, both added by rko:
>>
>> http://www.dsource.org/projects/bindings/browser/trunk/win32/format
>> http://www.dsource.org/projects/bindings/browser/trunk/win32/README.txt
>>
>> The latter is not to be confused with readme.txt.  Does anybody know how these got in here?
> 
> They look like accidental check-ins.  I say delete them :-p

Yeah, it looks like an accident to me.

A bunch of random stuff seemed to be checked in for changeset 149:
http://www.dsource.org/projects/bindings/changeset/149

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Sean Kelly wrote:
> Stewart Gordon wrote:
>> Once upon a time, this collaborative project to translate the Windows API headers into D was quite active.
>>
>> http://www.prowiki.org/wiki4d/wiki.cgi?WindowsAPI
>>
>> I think it had four or five contributors at one point.  But over the last month or three, there have only been minor updates.
>>
>> Of course, the core stuff has been translated, though not all polished.  And I've just taken a few more modules.  I think it's time for contributors, both new and old, to bring the project to life again.
> 
> That would be great.  If it helps, I would commit to having Ares using these libraries in future releases.

Indeed.  And I would like to make SDWF use this translation sometime. Not sure whether to wait until it becomes part of Phobos.  Once that's done, maybe I'll make a start on making SDWF support Unicode.

>> I've noticed that two files have mysteriously appeared in the Dsource repository, both added by rko:
>>
>> http://www.dsource.org/projects/bindings/browser/trunk/win32/format
>> http://www.dsource.org/projects/bindings/browser/trunk/win32/README.txt
>>
>> The latter is not to be confused with readme.txt.  Does anybody know how these got in here?
> 
> They look like accidental check-ins.  I say delete them :-p

And I noticed a bit later that that changeset included a number of weird folders as well.

Stewart.

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Speaking of translation... I wonder what purpose of fixed arrays of 1 element? Such as BYTE[1] (vs just BYTE).

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Serg Kovrov wrote:
> Speaking of translation... I wonder what purpose of fixed arrays of 1 element? Such as BYTE[1] (vs just BYTE).

They're a kludge to have a structure immediately followed by an array in memory.  The idea is that you allocate enough memory to contain the struct plus the array members beyond the first, and then access the array through the BYTE[1] member.

Because D has array bounds checking, which screws up this idea, the practice has been to translate these by naming the one-element array itself with a leading underscore and then defining a getter to turn this into a pointer.  There's been a bit of a debate about which approach to use - see the more recent thread "Getting back into translating the Win32 headers - anyone?"

Stewart.