I tried using htod but got errors as it could not handle the std C header files (Visual C++). How do people work around this?

Thanks and Regards
Dibyendu

On Friday, 22 January 2016 at 00:31:01 UTC, Dibyendu Majumdar wrote:
> I tried using htod but got errors as it could not handle the std C header files (Visual C++).

And probably never will. D doesn't have a preprocessor so it's kind of hard to automate the process.

> How do people work around this?
>
> Thanks and Regards
> Dibyendu

They don't.

Counter question: What's so bad about the D std library ?

On Friday, 22 January 2016 at 00:52:59 UTC, W.J. wrote:
> Counter question: What's so bad about the D std library ?

I am trying to create bindings for existing C library so I was trying to use htod for that.

On Friday, 22 January 2016 at 01:03:09 UTC, Dibyendu Majumdar wrote:
> On Friday, 22 January 2016 at 00:52:59 UTC, W.J. wrote:
>> Counter question: What's so bad about the D std library ?
>
> I am trying to create bindings for existing C library so I was trying to use htod for that.

The library includes various C header files ... causing htod to fail

On Friday, 22 January 2016 at 01:04:50 UTC, Dibyendu Majumdar wrote:
> On Friday, 22 January 2016 at 01:03:09 UTC, Dibyendu Majumdar wrote:
>> On Friday, 22 January 2016 at 00:52:59 UTC, W.J. wrote:
>>> Counter question: What's so bad about the D std library ?
>>
>> I am trying to create bindings for existing C library so I was trying to use htod for that.
>
> The library includes various C header files ... causing htod to fail

I see. I didn't quite understand your question correctly. I thought you were trying to port over the std c library.

Maybe you can give an example ?

On 2016-01-22 01:31, Dibyendu Majumdar wrote:
> I tried using htod but got errors as it could not handle the std C
> header files (Visual C++). How do people work around this?

You could try DStep [1]. Although I'm not entirely sure if it works on Windows. It uses libclang, so if Clang can handle the header file it should work in DStep as well.

[1] https://github.com/jacob-carlborg/dstep

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg

On Friday, 22 January 2016 at 01:04:50 UTC, Dibyendu Majumdar wrote:
> On Friday, 22 January 2016 at 01:03:09 UTC, Dibyendu Majumdar wrote:
>> On Friday, 22 January 2016 at 00:52:59 UTC, W.J. wrote:
>>> Counter question: What's so bad about the D std library ?
>>
>> I am trying to create bindings for existing C library so I was trying to use htod for that.
>
> The library includes various C header files ... causing htod to fail

Yeah, htod often requires preparing the files your trying to convert. Often removing macro's and the like. Its a manual process, and it can get dirty.