Is anyone working on one yet?

I think it would be good if it could:

- do as much conversion as it can do mechanically, alerting the user to any need to intervene
- allow you to specify values/definednesses to be assumed for identifiers #if/#ifdef/#ifndef, or that they should be converted to version blocks (where this is possible)
- ...

For example, it would somewhat simplify the task of translating all the Windows API headers....

Stewart.

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Stewart Gordon wrote:

> Is anyone working on one yet?
>
> I think it would be good if it could:
>
> - do as much conversion as it can do mechanically, alerting the user to any need to intervene
> - allow you to specify values/definednesses to be assumed for identifiers #if/#ifdef/#ifndef, or that they should be converted to version blocks (where this is possible)
> - ...
>
> For example, it would somewhat simplify the task of translating all the Windows API headers....
>
> Stewart.
>
Not that I know of.  Sounds good.

I was thinking off working on one in the future (distant future).  I was thinking about making a kinda pluginable one, with a few different phases, that people could keep improving as they find thing it doesn't do.    One phase could be a find->replace that probably could be setup by a script file (users could be easily encouraged to contribute here).

Actually I think something like my glee.d port could be done completely without human intervention (and I don't want to spend hours doing it by hand next time).

Using the pre-processing on the files caused many other unnessary bits a pieces. ie you don't want to import the entire openGL header file into an SDL project.  I think the extra symbols could be worked out and placed in kinda private junk-files (ie opengljunk.d), in the short term.  Manually, I was commenting out the #include files and seeing what symbol errors the D compiler brought up after conversion.  Then I could put these missing symbols in the junk files.  Of course you could recreate every file that is referenced. Anyway start of simple.

Also eventual support for C++ should be considered.

So if you start making one I wouldn't mind helping you in the distant (a few months) future.


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