• rcorre (33/33) Mar 01 2016 chipmunkd [1] provides D bindings for the most recent version
• Kyle (1/1) Mar 01 2016 Thanks! I look forward to trying this out.
• Andrej Mitrovic via Digitalmars-d-announce (5/17) Mar 02 2016 I ported it to D as I'm interested if it could improve performance
• rcorre (6/10) Mar 02 2016 Thanks! Porting is an admirable goal, but the thought of keeping

rcorre <ryan rcorre.net> writes:

chipmunkd [1] provides D bindings for the most recent version 
(7.0.1) of
Chipmunk2D [2], a 2D physics library.

Note that there is also DChip [3], which provides a full source 
port and is
currently targeting the 6.X branch. I figured bindings would be 
easier to keep
up to date with upstream releases than a full source port, though 
DChip has the
advantage of not requiring another dependency (and of having 
nicer-to-look at
source code?).

The ported demos seem to be working, but they depend on the 
rather outdated
glfw2. If you have glew and glfw2, you should be able to run the 
demos with dub.
Some of them look pretty cool.

The demo directory contains some hacked-together glfw2/glew 
bindings that were
just enough to get it working.

I also just realized Jakob Orvum already had some bindings [4], 
though they are a
few years out of date. In retrospect, I probably should have 
based my work on that. I really should research these things more 
thouroughly before I dive in. Oops.

The bindings were created with the help of dstep [5] (and a fair 
bit of manual
post-processing).

[1] https://github.com/rcorre/chipmunkd
[2] http://chipmunk-physics.net/
[3] https://github.com/d-gamedev-team/dchip
[4] https://github.com/JakobOvrum/ChipmunkD
[5] https://github.com/jacob-carlborg/dstep

Kyle <kyle kyle.kyle> writes:

Thanks! I look forward to trying this out.

Andrej Mitrovic via Digitalmars-d-announce writes:

On 3/1/16, rcorre via Digitalmars-d-announce
<digitalmars-d-announce puremagic.com> wrote:
 chipmunkd [1] provides D bindings for the most recent version
 (7.0.1) of
 Chipmunk2D [2], a 2D physics library.

 Note that there is also DChip [3], which provides a full source
 port and is
 currently targeting the 6.X branch. I figured bindings would be
 easier to keep
 up to date with upstream releases than a full source port, though
 DChip has the
 advantage of not requiring another dependency (and of having
 nicer-to-look at
 source code?).

I ported it to D as I'm interested if it could improve performance
since you could theoretically inline code. I haven't touched the code
in a long time, though. Nice to see bindings too however!

rcorre <ryan rcorre.net> writes:

On Wednesday, 2 March 2016 at 15:06:26 UTC, Andrej Mitrovic wrote:
 I ported it to D as I'm interested if it could improve 
 performance since you could theoretically inline code. I 
 haven't touched the code in a long time, though. Nice to see 
 bindings too however!

Thanks! Porting is an admirable goal, but the thought of keeping 
a full port up to date scared me :)

Then again, Chipmunk has so many functions inlined in it's 
headers I had to do a fair bit of porting anyways, and most of it 
doesn't have to change too much to be valid D.