Greetings.

I am trying to use an application that has an SDK package.  I have a bunch of c programs and .h headers and .lib files.  This SDK does not have a COM interface, otherwise I would use Juno, but I would like to use D to create a few programs for a few repetitive tasks.

What is the best way to go about this?

I know this has been asked probably thousand of times, so if anyone could guide me as to where I can find more info, or give me some steps with this, I would greatly appreciate it.  I tried searching on this, but there was no clear answer.  I did see the, " Converting C .h Files to D Modules" found here,

http://www.digitalmars.com/d/htomodule.html

which is a pretty intense job and so I am hoping that there is another way. :-)

thanks,

jose

jicman Wrote:

> 
> Greetings.
> 
> I am trying to use an application that has an SDK package.  I have a bunch of c programs and .h headers and .lib files.  This SDK does not have a COM interface, otherwise I would use Juno, but I would like to use D to create a few programs for a few repetitive tasks.
> 
> What is the best way to go about this?
> 
> I know this has been asked probably thousand of times, so if anyone could guide me as to where I can find more info, or give me some steps with this, I would greatly appreciate it.  I tried searching on this, but there was no clear answer.  I did see the, " Converting C .h Files to D Modules" found here,
> 
> http://www.digitalmars.com/d/htomodule.html
> 
> which is a pretty intense job and so I am hoping that there is another way. :-)
> 
> thanks,
> 
> jose

There are programs that do *some* of the work automatically:

http://www.digitalmars.com/d/htod.html http://www.dsource.org/projects/bcd

You'll still need to verify the output but it's a start.

Robert Fraser Wrote:

> jicman Wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Greetings.
> > 
> > I am trying to use an application that has an SDK package.  I have a bunch of c programs and .h headers and .lib files.  This SDK does not have a COM interface, otherwise I would use Juno, but I would like to use D to create a few programs for a few repetitive tasks.
> > 
> > What is the best way to go about this?
> > 
> > I know this has been asked probably thousand of times, so if anyone could guide me as to where I can find more info, or give me some steps with this, I would greatly appreciate it.  I tried searching on this, but there was no clear answer.  I did see the, " Converting C .h Files to D Modules" found here,
> > 
> > http://www.digitalmars.com/d/htomodule.html
> > 
> > which is a pretty intense job and so I am hoping that there is another way. :-)
> > 
> > thanks,
> > 
> > jose
> 
> There are programs that do *some* of the work automatically:
> 
> http://www.digitalmars.com/d/htod.html http://www.dsource.org/projects/bcd
> 
> You'll still need to verify the output but it's a start.

Thanks.  This is perfect.

jose

jicman wrote:
> Robert Fraser Wrote:
> 
>> jicman Wrote:
>>
>>> Greetings.
>>>
>>> I am trying to use an application that has an SDK package.  I have a bunch of c programs and .h headers and .lib files.  This SDK does not have a COM interface, otherwise I would use Juno, but I would like to use D to create a few programs for a few repetitive tasks.
>>>
>>> What is the best way to go about this?
>>>
>>> I know this has been asked probably thousand of times, so if anyone could guide me as to where I can find more info, or give me some steps with this, I would greatly appreciate it.  I tried searching on this, but there was no clear answer.  I did see the, " Converting C .h Files to D Modules" found here,
>>>
>>> http://www.digitalmars.com/d/htomodule.html
>>>
>>> which is a pretty intense job and so I am hoping that there is another way. :-)
>>>
>>> thanks,
>>>
>>> jose
>> There are programs that do *some* of the work automatically:
>>
>> http://www.digitalmars.com/d/htod.html
>> http://www.dsource.org/projects/bcd
>>
>> You'll still need to verify the output but it's a start.
> 
> Thanks.  This is perfect.
> 
> jose

I haven't had much luck with either of these.
htod is just too simplistic.
For instance it seems to get hung up on pretty common C idioms like:
  typedef struct {...} MyStruct;

bcd (the Windows binary) just hangs and produces no output for me.

So I've been translating things by hand.
It's not too bad and if you're good with emacs keyboard macros, you can semi-automate a lot of it.

--bb

Bill Baxter Wrote:

> jicman wrote:
> > Robert Fraser Wrote:
> > 
> >> jicman Wrote:
> >>
> >>> Greetings.
> >>>
> >>> I am trying to use an application that has an SDK package.  I have a bunch of c programs and .h headers and .lib files.  This SDK does not have a COM interface, otherwise I would use Juno, but I would like to use D to create a few programs for a few repetitive tasks.
> >>>
> >>> What is the best way to go about this?
> >>>
> >>> I know this has been asked probably thousand of times, so if anyone could guide me as to where I can find more info, or give me some steps with this, I would greatly appreciate it.  I tried searching on this, but there was no clear answer.  I did see the, " Converting C .h Files to D Modules" found here,
> >>>
> >>> http://www.digitalmars.com/d/htomodule.html
> >>>
> >>> which is a pretty intense job and so I am hoping that there is another way. :-)
> >>>
> >>> thanks,
> >>>
> >>> jose
> >> There are programs that do *some* of the work automatically:
> >>
> >> http://www.digitalmars.com/d/htod.html http://www.dsource.org/projects/bcd
> >>
> >> You'll still need to verify the output but it's a start.
> > 
> > Thanks.  This is perfect.
> > 
> > jose
> 
> I haven't had much luck with either of these.
> htod is just too simplistic.
> For instance it seems to get hung up on pretty common C idioms like:
>    typedef struct {...} MyStruct;
> 
> bcd (the Windows binary) just hangs and produces no output for me.
> 
> So I've been translating things by hand.
> It's not too bad and if you're good with emacs keyboard macros, you can
> semi-automate a lot of it.
> 
> --bb

Thanks.  It will, at least, get me going.  I used to be an emacs expert and then I found myself having to learn vi, since most of our unix servers didn't come with emacs, so I fallen in love with vim and so that is what I use.  Whatever I used to do with emacs, I can do with vim. :-)

Thanks,

josé

jicman schrieb:
> Greetings.
> 
> I am trying to use an application that has an SDK package.  I have a bunch of c programs and .h headers and .lib files.  This SDK does not have a COM interface, otherwise I would use Juno, but I would like to use D to create a few programs for a few repetitive tasks.
> 
> What is the best way to go about this?
> 
> I know this has been asked probably thousand of times, so if anyone could guide me as to where I can find more info, or give me some steps with this, I would greatly appreciate it.  I tried searching on this, but there was no clear answer.  I did see the, " Converting C .h Files to D Modules" found here,
> 
> http://www.digitalmars.com/d/htomodule.html
> 
> which is a pretty intense job and so I am hoping that there is another way. :-)
> 
> thanks,
> 
> jose
Hi Jose,
Claysaurus has written something interesting regarding C++ -> D.
http://www.dsource.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=3128
HTH Bjoern