On Thu, 26 Jan 2012 07:19:27 -0800
bls <bizprac@orange.fr> wrote:

> Sorry for my ignorance but why should one use DStep instead of htod in order to port plain vanilla C headers ? I have to admit that I haven't tried DStep yet.

Excuse me for my ignorance about DStep, but htod is Windows-only.


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>> Sorry for my ignorance but why should one use DStep instead of htod in order to port plain vanilla C headers ? I have to admit that I haven't tried DStep yet.
>
> htod is Windows-only.

And it sucks.
For example it drops const, runs the preprocessor instead of turning preprocessor directives into proper D equivalents, horribly messes up the comments (esp. comments for enum members),...

On 01/26/2012 07:51 AM, Trass3r wrote:
>>> Sorry for my ignorance but why should one use DStep instead of htod
>>> in order to port plain vanilla C headers ? I have to admit that I
>>> haven't tried DStep yet.
>>
>> htod is Windows-only.
>
> And it sucks.
> For example it drops const, runs the preprocessor instead of turning
> preprocessor directives into proper D equivalents, horribly messes up
> the comments (esp. comments for enum members),...

Ok,Thanks for clarification! Seems that DStep is a missing link in the D tool-chain and should be part of the DMD package
I'll try DStep ASAP on libxml2 and libxslt. Will let you know how it works for me.
Thanks, Bjoern

> Ok,Thanks for clarification! Seems that DStep is a missing link in the D tool-chain and should be part of the DMD package
> I'll try DStep ASAP on libxml2 and libxslt. Will let you know how it works for me.

I don't think it's in a usable state yet.
I guess SWIG could be useful currently.

On 2012-01-26 17:18, Trass3r wrote:
>> Ok,Thanks for clarification! Seems that DStep is a missing link in the
>> D tool-chain and should be part of the DMD package
>> I'll try DStep ASAP on libxml2 and libxslt. Will let you know how it
>> works for me.
>
> I don't think it's in a usable state yet.
> I guess SWIG could be useful currently.

No, it's not in very usable state currently. The Clang modifications are somewhat usable: https://github.com/jacob-carlborg/clang

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On 2012-01-26 16:41, Gour wrote:
> On Thu, 26 Jan 2012 07:19:27 -0800
> bls<bizprac@orange.fr>  wrote:
>
>> Sorry for my ignorance but why should one use DStep instead of htod
>> in order to port plain vanilla C headers ? I have to admit that I
>> haven't tried DStep yet.
>
> Excuse me for my ignorance about DStep, but htod is Windows-only.

Exactly, dstep could work on any platform supported by Clang and D.

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On 2012-01-26 17:08, bls wrote:
> On 01/26/2012 07:51 AM, Trass3r wrote:
>>>> Sorry for my ignorance but why should one use DStep instead of htod
>>>> in order to port plain vanilla C headers ? I have to admit that I
>>>> haven't tried DStep yet.
>>>
>>> htod is Windows-only.
>>
>> And it sucks.
>> For example it drops const, runs the preprocessor instead of turning
>> preprocessor directives into proper D equivalents, horribly messes up
>> the comments (esp. comments for enum members),...
>
> Ok,Thanks for clarification! Seems that DStep is a missing link in the D
> tool-chain and should be part of the DMD package
> I'll try DStep ASAP on libxml2 and libxslt. Will let you know how it
> works for me.
> Thanks, Bjoern

DStep has nothing to do with XML. It uses the Clang C API to create D bindings.

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On 01/26/2012 09:51 AM, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> On 2012-01-26 17:08, bls wrote:
>> On 01/26/2012 07:51 AM, Trass3r wrote:
>>>>> Sorry for my ignorance but why should one use DStep instead of htod
>>>>> in order to port plain vanilla C headers ? I have to admit that I
>>>>> haven't tried DStep yet.
>>>>
>>>> htod is Windows-only.
>>>
>>> And it sucks.
>>> For example it drops const, runs the preprocessor instead of turning
>>> preprocessor directives into proper D equivalents, horribly messes up
>>> the comments (esp. comments for enum members),...
>>
>> Ok,Thanks for clarification! Seems that DStep is a missing link in the D
>> tool-chain and should be part of the DMD package
>> I'll try DStep ASAP on libxml2 and libxslt. Will let you know how it
>> works for me.
>> Thanks, Bjoern
>
> DStep has nothing to do with XML. It uses the Clang C API to create D
> bindings.
>

libxml2 is a plain c library
http://xmlsoft.org/

libxslt dito.
http://xmlsoft.org/XSLT/

?? May you mix it up. In order to create *bindings* to C++ libs doxygens xml output seems to be perfect.

To _port_ C headers DStep is probaly the right tool. But I just see that I have to build llvm and what the heck.. :(

Now, in order to parse doxygens xml output std.xml is not good enough. In other words it would be nice to have libxml2 as D lib available.

On Thursday, 26 January 2012 at 15:13:57 UTC, bls wrote:

> Andrej,
> I can't await your SUCCESS message. For me your upcoming code is the most important stuff since years.
> A few questions : where do I find Vladimir Panteelev's XML library ? Does this library support XPATH ?

I don't know anything about Vladimir's parser, I've just been using xmlp, which has xpath though I have have not used. Xmlp has gone through some breaking changes recently as I've been submitting bugs.

http://www.dsource.org/projects/xmlp/browser/trunk/std

On Thursday, January 26, 2012 19:44:18 Jesse Phillips wrote:
> On Thursday, 26 January 2012 at 15:13:57 UTC, bls wrote:
> > Andrej,
> > I can't await your SUCCESS message. For me your upcoming code
> > is the most important stuff since years.
> > A few questions : where do I find Vladimir Panteelev's XML
> > library ? Does this library support XPATH ?
> 
> I don't know anything about Vladimir's parser, I've just been using xmlp, which has xpath though I have have not used. Xmlp has gone through some breaking changes recently as I've been submitting bugs.
> 
> http://www.dsource.org/projects/xmlp/browser/trunk/std

xmlp is the one that Tomaz is working on to replace std.xml, correct? Any idea how close it is to actually being submitted for review?

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