• Don Clugston (21/21) May 29 2006 The Windows API project has converted many header files to D,

Don Clugston <dac nospam.com.au> writes:

The Windows API project has converted many header files to D,
which require import libraries that are not included in the DMD download.
They can be trivially constructed from Microsoft's .lib files by simply 
running coffimlib on them; but only Digital Mars has a license to 
redistribute the resulting files. It would be simplest for DMD to 
provide them.

The ones which are missing that we're using right now are:

mpr.lib
rpcns4.lib
netapi32.lib
aclui.lib
shlwapi.lib
oleacc.lib
imm32.lib
setupapi.lib
lz32.lib

This list will grow with time (67 (0.45 Mb) of the 184 (2.37 Mb) MinGW 
headers are still completely unconverted). Also, some of the most recent 
Windows APIs are not included in the existing .lib files. So we'll 
eventually need the full set of .lib files.

It's time to make D a serious development platform for Windows apps!