For the past 2 days I've been trying to port the Q3VM (https://github.com/jnz/q3vm) to D.
While most of the code is converted, it's somewhat riddled with cast statements and I'm still having trouble getting it to compile without errors.

My conversion can be found here:

https://gist.github.com/markusbkk/442a571353a48c5377c503e7d02570fb

My main problem are the macro functions at line 398 in my code, as well as the compiler telling me that "static variable codeImage cannot be read at compile time".

Would really appreciate some help with this from the D Lords of this group.

Are you heard of https://github.com/dkorpel/ctod ?

On Tuesday, 15 October 2024 at 12:27:42 UTC, barbosso wrote:

I actually used CTOD for part of the translation but it wouldn't translate the macros correctly. It turned them into weird string mixins.

On Tuesday, 15 October 2024 at 13:30:03 UTC, Mark Bauermeister wrote:

It's not as well known, but ImportC also converts C code to D: https://dlang.org/spec/importc.html#ctod It needs the -inline switch to output function bodies. The last time I used it, there were problems with generation of duplicate items, but it was able to handle most anything I threw at it. Would be worth a try.

On Tuesday, 15 October 2024 at 16:05:48 UTC, Lance Bachmeier wrote:

Thanks! That helped me figure out some more macros.

Now if only I could figure out how to resolve "variable codeImage cannot be read at compile time". That's the last thing neither of those automation solutions can help me with.