• Stewart Gordon (15/15) Apr 26 2004 Is anyone working on one yet?
• J Anderson (23/34) Apr 26 2004 Not that I know of. Sounds good.

Stewart Gordon <smjg_1998 yahoo.com> writes:

Is anyone working on one yet?

I think it would be good if it could:

- do as much conversion as it can do mechanically, alerting the user to 
any need to intervene
- allow you to specify values/definednesses to be assumed for 
identifiers #if/#ifdef/#ifndef, or that they should be converted to 
version blocks (where this is possible)
- ...

For example, it would somewhat simplify the task of translating all the 
Windows API headers....

Stewart.

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J Anderson <REMOVEanderson badmama.com.au> writes:

Stewart Gordon wrote:

 Is anyone working on one yet?

 I think it would be good if it could:

 - do as much conversion as it can do mechanically, alerting the user 
 to any need to intervene
 - allow you to specify values/definednesses to be assumed for 
 identifiers #if/#ifdef/#ifndef, or that they should be converted to 
 version blocks (where this is possible)
 - ...

 For example, it would somewhat simplify the task of translating all 
 the Windows API headers....

 Stewart.

Not that I know of.  Sounds good.

I was thinking off working on one in the future (distant future).  I was 
thinking about making a kinda pluginable one, with a few different 
phases, that people could keep improving as they find thing it doesn't 
do.    One phase could be a find->replace that probably could be setup 
by a script file (users could be easily encouraged to contribute here).

Actually I think something like my glee.d port could be done completely 
without human intervention (and I don't want to spend hours doing it by 
hand next time).

Using the pre-processing on the files caused many other unnessary bits a 
pieces. ie you don't want to import the entire openGL header file into 
an SDL project.  I think the extra symbols could be worked out and 
placed in kinda private junk-files (ie opengljunk.d), in the short 
term.  Manually, I was commenting out the #include files and seeing what 
symbol errors the D compiler brought up after conversion.  Then I could 
put these missing symbols in the junk files.  Of course you could 
recreate every file that is referenced. Anyway start of simple.

Also eventual support for C++ should be considered.

So if you start making one I wouldn't mind helping you in the distant (a 
few months) future.


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