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reply jicman <cabrera_ _wrc.xerox.com> writes:
Greetings.

I am trying to use an application that has an SDK package.  I have a bunch of c
programs and .h headers and .lib files.  This SDK does not have a COM
interface, otherwise I would use Juno, but I would like to use D to create a
few programs for a few repetitive tasks.

What is the best way to go about this?

I know this has been asked probably thousand of times, so if anyone could guide
me as to where I can find more info, or give me some steps with this, I would
greatly appreciate it.  I tried searching on this, but there was no clear
answer.  I did see the, " Converting C .h Files to D Modules" found here,

http://www.digitalmars.com/d/htomodule.html

which is a pretty intense job and so I am hoping that there is another way. :-)

thanks,

jose
Sep 13 2007
next sibling parent reply Robert Fraser <fraserofthenight gmail.com> writes:
jicman Wrote:


 
 Greetings.
 
 I am trying to use an application that has an SDK package.  I have a bunch of
c programs and .h headers and .lib files.  This SDK does not have a COM
interface, otherwise I would use Juno, but I would like to use D to create a
few programs for a few repetitive tasks.
 
 What is the best way to go about this?
 
 I know this has been asked probably thousand of times, so if anyone could
guide me as to where I can find more info, or give me some steps with this, I
would greatly appreciate it.  I tried searching on this, but there was no clear
answer.  I did see the, " Converting C .h Files to D Modules" found here,
 
 http://www.digitalmars.com/d/htomodule.html
 
 which is a pretty intense job and so I am hoping that there is another way. :-)
 
 thanks,
 
 jose


There are programs that do *some* of the work automatically:

http://www.digitalmars.com/d/htod.html
http://www.dsource.org/projects/bcd

You'll still need to verify the output but it's a start.
Sep 13 2007
parent reply jicman <cabrera_ _wrc.xerox.com> writes:
Robert Fraser Wrote:


 jicman Wrote:
 

 
 Greetings.
 
 I am trying to use an application that has an SDK package.  I have a bunch of
c programs and .h headers and .lib files.  This SDK does not have a COM
interface, otherwise I would use Juno, but I would like to use D to create a
few programs for a few repetitive tasks.
 
 What is the best way to go about this?
 
 I know this has been asked probably thousand of times, so if anyone could
guide me as to where I can find more info, or give me some steps with this, I
would greatly appreciate it.  I tried searching on this, but there was no clear
answer.  I did see the, " Converting C .h Files to D Modules" found here,
 
 http://www.digitalmars.com/d/htomodule.html
 
 which is a pretty intense job and so I am hoping that there is another way. :-)
 
 thanks,
 
 jose


 
 There are programs that do *some* of the work automatically:
 
 http://www.digitalmars.com/d/htod.html
 http://www.dsource.org/projects/bcd
 
 You'll still need to verify the output but it's a start.


Thanks.  This is perfect.

jose
Sep 14 2007
parent reply Bill Baxter <dnewsgroup billbaxter.com> writes:
jicman wrote:

 Robert Fraser Wrote:
 

 jicman Wrote:


 Greetings.

 I am trying to use an application that has an SDK package.  I have a bunch of
c programs and .h headers and .lib files.  This SDK does not have a COM
interface, otherwise I would use Juno, but I would like to use D to create a
few programs for a few repetitive tasks.

 What is the best way to go about this?

 I know this has been asked probably thousand of times, so if anyone could
guide me as to where I can find more info, or give me some steps with this, I
would greatly appreciate it.  I tried searching on this, but there was no clear
answer.  I did see the, " Converting C .h Files to D Modules" found here,

 http://www.digitalmars.com/d/htomodule.html

 which is a pretty intense job and so I am hoping that there is another way. :-)

 thanks,

 jose


 There are programs that do *some* of the work automatically:

 http://www.digitalmars.com/d/htod.html
 http://www.dsource.org/projects/bcd

 You'll still need to verify the output but it's a start.


 
 Thanks.  This is perfect.
 
 jose


I haven't had much luck with either of these.
htod is just too simplistic.
For instance it seems to get hung up on pretty common C idioms like:
   typedef struct {...} MyStruct;

bcd (the Windows binary) just hangs and produces no output for me.

So I've been translating things by hand.
It's not too bad and if you're good with emacs keyboard macros, you can 
semi-automate a lot of it.

--bb
Sep 14 2007
parent jicman <cabrera_ _wrc.xerox.com> writes:
Bill Baxter Wrote:


 jicman wrote:

 Robert Fraser Wrote:
 

 jicman Wrote:


 Greetings.

 I am trying to use an application that has an SDK package.  I have a bunch of
c programs and .h headers and .lib files.  This SDK does not have a COM
interface, otherwise I would use Juno, but I would like to use D to create a
few programs for a few repetitive tasks.

 What is the best way to go about this?

 I know this has been asked probably thousand of times, so if anyone could
guide me as to where I can find more info, or give me some steps with this, I
would greatly appreciate it.  I tried searching on this, but there was no clear
answer.  I did see the, " Converting C .h Files to D Modules" found here,

 http://www.digitalmars.com/d/htomodule.html

 which is a pretty intense job and so I am hoping that there is another way. :-)

 thanks,

 jose


 There are programs that do *some* of the work automatically:

 http://www.digitalmars.com/d/htod.html
 http://www.dsource.org/projects/bcd

 You'll still need to verify the output but it's a start.


 
 Thanks.  This is perfect.
 
 jose


 
 I haven't had much luck with either of these.
 htod is just too simplistic.
 For instance it seems to get hung up on pretty common C idioms like:
    typedef struct {...} MyStruct;
 
 bcd (the Windows binary) just hangs and produces no output for me.
 
 So I've been translating things by hand.
 It's not too bad and if you're good with emacs keyboard macros, you can 
 semi-automate a lot of it.
 
 --bb


Thanks.  It will, at least, get me going.  I used to be an emacs expert and
then I found myself having to learn vi, since most of our unix servers didn't
come with emacs, so I fallen in love with vim and so that is what I use. 
Whatever I used to do with emacs, I can do with vim. :-)

Thanks,

josé
Sep 15 2007
prev sibling parent BLS <nanali nospam-wanadoo.fr> writes:
jicman schrieb:

 Greetings.
 
 I am trying to use an application that has an SDK package.  I have a bunch of
c programs and .h headers and .lib files.  This SDK does not have a COM
interface, otherwise I would use Juno, but I would like to use D to create a
few programs for a few repetitive tasks.
 
 What is the best way to go about this?
 
 I know this has been asked probably thousand of times, so if anyone could
guide me as to where I can find more info, or give me some steps with this, I
would greatly appreciate it.  I tried searching on this, but there was no clear
answer.  I did see the, " Converting C .h Files to D Modules" found here,
 
 http://www.digitalmars.com/d/htomodule.html
 
 which is a pretty intense job and so I am hoping that there is another way. :-)
 
 thanks,
 
 jose


Hi Jose,
Claysaurus has written something interesting regarding C++ -> D.
http://www.dsource.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=3128
HTH Bjoern
Sep 16 2007