• donglei (9/9) Sep 20 2015 While D is binary compatible with C code, it cannot compile C
• Rikki Cattermole (7/15) Sep 20 2015 What you are asking for is a c/c++ frontend as part of the D compiler,
• Ola Fosheim =?UTF-8?B?R3LDuHN0YWQ=?= (4/6) Sep 21 2015 Making a c frontend part of the compiler should be feasible. I
• Jonathan M Davis (12/14) Sep 21 2015 Of course it's feasible, but it would mean that the D compiler
• Sean Campbell (9/18) Sep 20 2015 unfortunately no...
• Jacob Carlborg (6/14) Sep 20 2015 For C, there's a tool called DStep [1] that can automatically generate
• John Colvin (2/11) Sep 20 2015 There is https://github.com/Syniurge/Calypso

donglei <langhao2010 163.com> writes:

While D is binary compatible with C code, it cannot compile C 
code nor C header files.
In order to use C/C++ binary libs， I have to convert C or C++ 
header files to D module.
It make very difficult to use C binary libs.
Can D compiler support C/C++ source code in future?
If can, it will become easy and convenient to use C/C++ libs in 
Dlang.
Hope to achieve it as soon as possible!

Rikki Cattermole <alphaglosined gmail.com> writes:

On 21/09/15 5:24 PM, donglei wrote:
 While D is binary compatible with C code, it cannot compile C code nor C
 header files.
 In order to use C/C++ binary libs， I have to convert C or C++ header
 files to D module.
 It make very difficult to use C binary libs.
 Can D compiler support C/C++ source code in future?
 If can, it will become easy and convenient to use C/C++ libs in Dlang.
 Hope to achieve it as soon as possible!

What you are asking for is a c/c++ frontend as part of the D compiler, 
which is completely infeasible. There are attempts such as Calypso to 
use an existing c++ front end to generate D bindings. But even they have 
a hard time, especially with STL.

This is not going to happen. You will need to create bindings some way 
or another. They are easy and simple to do.

Ola Fosheim =?UTF-8?B?R3LDuHN0YWQ=?= writes:

On Monday, 21 September 2015 at 05:32:52 UTC, Rikki Cattermole 
wrote:
 What you are asking for is a c/c++ frontend as part of the D 
 compiler, which is completely infeasible.

Making a c frontend part of the compiler should be feasible. I 
can think of several distinct approaches.

Jonathan M Davis <jmdavisProg gmx.com> writes:

On Monday, 21 September 2015 at 05:32:52 UTC, Rikki Cattermole 
wrote:
 What you are asking for is a c/c++ frontend as part of the D 
 compiler, which is completely infeasible.

Of course it's feasible, but it would mean that the D compiler 
would have to have a full-blown C++ compiler built into it, and 
we don't want that maintenance nightmare, and we certainly don't 
want to put in the time and effort that would be required to do 
it. D already has far better support for C/C++ than is typical of 
languages which aren't C or C++, and it may improve further, but 
there are limits to what is reasonable to do, and it's been 
stated on multiple occasions that we don't want to implement 
C/C++ in the D compiler.

- Jonathan M Davis

Sean Campbell <sycam.inc gmail.com> writes:

On Monday, 21 September 2015 at 05:25:01 UTC, donglei wrote:
 While D is binary compatible with C code, it cannot compile C 
 code nor C header files.
 In order to use C/C++ binary libs， I have to convert C or C++ 
 header files to D module.
 It make very difficult to use C binary libs.
 Can D compiler support C/C++ source code in future?
 If can, it will become easy and convenient to use C/C++ libs in 
 Dlang.
 Hope to achieve it as soon as possible!

unfortunately no...

as stated at http://dlang.org/cpp_interface.html to support C/C++ 
source would be practically unimplementable note I say 
practically because while theoretically it is possible, the D 
community has neither the resources nor the time to implement 
such a feature.

If you look around D.announce I seem to remember someone hacked 
up LLVM and clang to allow such interface.

Jacob Carlborg <doob me.com> writes:

On 2015-09-21 07:24, donglei wrote:
 While D is binary compatible with C code, it cannot compile C code nor C
 header files.
 In order to use C/C++ binary libs， I have to convert C or C++ header
 files to D module.
 It make very difficult to use C binary libs.
 Can D compiler support C/C++ source code in future?
 If can, it will become easy and convenient to use C/C++ libs in Dlang.
 Hope to achieve it as soon as possible!

For C, there's a tool called DStep [1] that can automatically generate 
bindings. It's not 100% perfect but will get you a long way.

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

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg

John Colvin <john.loughran.colvin gmail.com> writes:

On Monday, 21 September 2015 at 05:25:01 UTC, donglei wrote:
 While D is binary compatible with C code, it cannot compile C 
 code nor C header files.
 In order to use C/C++ binary libs， I have to convert C or C++ 
 header files to D module.
 It make very difficult to use C binary libs.
 Can D compiler support C/C++ source code in future?
 If can, it will become easy and convenient to use C/C++ libs in 
 Dlang.
 Hope to achieve it as soon as possible!

There is https://github.com/Syniurge/Calypso