On Wed, Feb 14, 2018 at 2:26 PM, rikki cattermole via Digitalmars-d < digitalmars-d@puremagic.com> wrote:

> On 13/02/2018 10:54 PM, Danni Coy wrote:
>
>>
>> On Wed, Feb 14, 2018 at 8:20 AM, Ivan Trombley via Digitalmars-d < digitalmars-d@puremagic.com <mailto:digitalmars-d@puremagic.com>> wrote:
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>>     I wanted to do some experimentation with Vulkan using D. None of the
>>     projects that I found (derelict-vulkan, d-vulkan and erupted) work.
>>
>>     Are there D bindings to Vulkan that actually work?
>>
>>
>> strictly speaking you don't need a binding, you can access C code directly as long as you write compatible header definitions for the parts of vulkan you are actually using in your code.
>>
>
> Which is then called a binding ;)
>

The programmers I work with like to differentiate between situations where you can call code directly and when you have to do stuff like marshalling to get code in one language to talk to code in another language so I tend not to think of writing header definitions as making bindings.

On Saturday, February 17, 2018 13:52:06 Danni Coy via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 14, 2018 at 2:26 PM, rikki cattermole via Digitalmars-d <
>
> digitalmars-d@puremagic.com> wrote:
> > On 13/02/2018 10:54 PM, Danni Coy wrote:
> >> On Wed, Feb 14, 2018 at 8:20 AM, Ivan Trombley via Digitalmars-d <
> >>
> >> digitalmars-d@puremagic.com <mailto:digitalmars-d@puremagic.com>>
wrote:
> >>     I wanted to do some experimentation with Vulkan using D. None of
> >>     the
> >>     projects that I found (derelict-vulkan, d-vulkan and erupted) work.
> >>
> >>     Are there D bindings to Vulkan that actually work?
> >>
> >> strictly speaking you don't need a binding, you can access C code
> >> directly as long as you write compatible header definitions for the
> >> parts
> >> of vulkan you are actually using in your code.
> >
> > Which is then called a binding ;)
>
> The programmers I work with like to differentiate between situations where you can call code directly and when you have to do stuff like marshalling to get code in one language to talk to code in another language so I tend not to think of writing header definitions as making bindings.

Well, in D-speak, C header definitions rewritten as D so that D can call the C functions are exactly what bindings are, whereas if bindings are wrapped in D code to make them more D-like, those are called wrappers. I don't know that there's a specific term for a case where marshalling is involved.

- Jonathan M Davis

On Saturday, 17 February 2018 at 05:52:38 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote:

> Well, in D-speak, C header definitions rewritten as D so that D can call the C functions are exactly what bindings are, whereas if bindings are wrapped in D code to make them more D-like, those are called wrappers. I don't know that there's a specific term for a case where marshalling is involved.
>

Dynamic binding?

On Tuesday, 13 February 2018 at 22:20:15 UTC, Ivan Trombley wrote:
> I wanted to do some experimentation with Vulkan using D. None of the projects that I found (derelict-vulkan, d-vulkan and erupted) work.
>
> Are there D bindings to Vulkan that actually work?

I had success using Vulkan in University by using Derelict-GLFW3 and Erupted, what issues did you have with them?