Hello everyone,
It's been a couple of days since I've started trying to use the pcap library
with d.
first I've started from scratch but I gave up partly because I don't know
enough of how sockets are implemented in d and how I was going to be able to
bridge those two, I ended up making one giant mess :p.
Then I've stumbled upon htod.exe but as of this moment it refuses to spit
something useful out. I was wondering if someone had ever used it before?
I do "htod.exe pcap.h ../pcap-stdinc.h *longpath*\winsock2.h
*longpath*\excpt.h"

Also I don't really know what I have to do with the bindings once I have working d modules, simply place it with the shipped .lib files and wait for magic to happen? (I've no experience whatsoever with c(++))

I'm also prety convinced d could gain a lot more users/libraries if binding between header files and d files went way easier.

maarten

On 04.08.2011 09:10, maarten van damme wrote:
> Hello everyone,
> It's been a couple of days since I've started trying to use the pcap
> library with d.
> first I've started from scratch but I gave up partly because I don't
> know enough of how sockets are implemented in d and how I was going to
> be able to bridge those two, I ended up making one giant mess :p.
> Then I've stumbled upon htod.exe but as of this moment it refuses to
> spit something useful out. I was wondering if someone had ever used it
> before?
> I do "htod.exe pcap.h ../pcap-stdinc.h *longpath*\winsock2.h
> *longpath*\excpt.h"
>
> Also I don't really know what I have to do with the bindings once I have
> working d modules, simply place it with the shipped .lib files and wait
> for magic to happen? (I've no experience whatsoever with c(++))
>
> I'm also prety convinced d could gain a lot more users/libraries if
> binding between header files and d files went way easier.
>
> maarten

The dsource bindings project have many bindings you can look at for examples: http://dsource.org/projects/bindings
The win32 binding has some instructions on translating: http://dsource.org/projects/bindings/wiki/WindowsApi/Instructions
dpl also has some instructions: http://www.d-programming-language.org/windows.html
And some more: http://www.d-programming-language.org/htomodule.html

I don't think htod is designed as a one-stop for converting header files. You'll probably have to manually change the file it spits out for all but the simplest cases.

hehe, thank you, that was what I was looking for. I've created an import lib
from the dll and now started to translate the header files following those
guidelines.
I'm assuming thats how I have to do it? :)

the problem is that it's a lot of work and that I can never really test if what I have so far is really working...

2011/8/4 simendsjo <simendsjo@gmail.com>

> On 04.08.2011 09:10, maarten van damme wrote:
>
>> Hello everyone,
>> It's been a couple of days since I've started trying to use the pcap
>> library with d.
>> first I've started from scratch but I gave up partly because I don't
>> know enough of how sockets are implemented in d and how I was going to
>> be able to bridge those two, I ended up making one giant mess :p.
>> Then I've stumbled upon htod.exe but as of this moment it refuses to
>> spit something useful out. I was wondering if someone had ever used it
>> before?
>> I do "htod.exe pcap.h ../pcap-stdinc.h *longpath*\winsock2.h
>> *longpath*\excpt.h"
>>
>> Also I don't really know what I have to do with the bindings once I have working d modules, simply place it with the shipped .lib files and wait for magic to happen? (I've no experience whatsoever with c(++))
>>
>> I'm also prety convinced d could gain a lot more users/libraries if binding between header files and d files went way easier.
>>
>> maarten
>>
>
> The dsource bindings project have many bindings you can look at for
> examples: http://dsource.org/projects/**bindings<http://dsource.org/projects/bindings>
> The win32 binding has some instructions on translating:
> http://dsource.org/projects/**bindings/wiki/WindowsApi/**Instructions<http://dsource.org/projects/bindings/wiki/WindowsApi/Instructions>
> dpl also has some instructions: http://www.d-programming-**
> language.org/windows.html<http://www.d-programming-language.org/windows.html>
> And some more: http://www.d-programming-**language.org/htomodule.html<http://www.d-programming-language.org/htomodule.html>
>
> I don't think htod is designed as a one-stop for converting header files. You'll probably have to manually change the file it spits out for all but the simplest cases.
>

On 05.08.2011 06:35, maarten van damme wrote:
> hehe, thank you, that was what I was looking for. I've created an import
> lib from the dll and now started to translate the header files following
> those guidelines.
> I'm assuming thats how I have to do it? :)

Starting with htod might give you a head start, but I have really only wrapped very small pieces of C code.

> the problem is that it's a lot of work and that I can never really test
> if what I have so far is really working...

That is always a problem :)

Sad news, I kinda gave up on it. at certain places I don't know enough c and for my first c to d conversion I think that library is way out of my leage. another problem was that I couldn't even compile to c header files with dmc due to errors, let allone convert it correctly :p

I'll better start with something smaller. Too bad htod is not that advanced, a good seamless conversion could give d more potential as it then can access all c libraries without having to translate all those header files one by one :)

Thanks for the links though, they'll become usefull in the feature. 2011/8/6 simendsjo <simendsjo@gmail.com>

> On 05.08.2011 06:35, maarten van damme wrote:
>
>> hehe, thank you, that was what I was looking for. I've created an import
>> lib from the dll and now started to translate the header files following
>> those guidelines.
>> I'm assuming thats how I have to do it? :)
>>
>
> Starting with htod might give you a head start, but I have really only wrapped very small pieces of C code.
>
>
>  the problem is that it's a lot of work and that I can never really test
>> if what I have so far is really working...
>>
>
> That is always a problem :)
>

on a side note, where does the bcd http://www.dsource.org/projects/bcd project stands?

2011/8/7 maarten van damme <maartenvd1994@gmail.com>

>
> Sad news, I kinda gave up on it. at certain places I don't know enough c and for my first c to d conversion I think that library is way out of my leage. another problem was that I couldn't even compile to c header files with dmc due to errors, let allone convert it correctly :p
>
> I'll better start with something smaller. Too bad htod is not that advanced, a good seamless conversion could give d more potential as it then can access all c libraries without having to translate all those header files one by one :)
>
> Thanks for the links though, they'll become usefull in the feature. 2011/8/6 simendsjo <simendsjo@gmail.com>
>
>> On 05.08.2011 06:35, maarten van damme wrote:
>>
>>> hehe, thank you, that was what I was looking for. I've created an import
>>> lib from the dll and now started to translate the header files following
>>> those guidelines.
>>> I'm assuming thats how I have to do it? :)
>>>
>>
>> Starting with htod might give you a head start, but I have really only wrapped very small pieces of C code.
>>
>>
>>  the problem is that it's a lot of work and that I can never really test
>>> if what I have so far is really working...
>>>
>>
>> That is always a problem :)
>>
>
>