• Sebastiaan Koppe (16/16) Sep 23 2015 I have just created bindings for libxlsxwriter, an c library for
• Rikki Cattermole (4/20) Sep 23 2015 Is libxlsxwriter available in the systems package manager?
• Sebastiaan Koppe (4/6) Sep 23 2015 Pacman says no.
• Rikki Cattermole (3/8) Sep 23 2015 I've taken a look at it.
• Sebastiaan Koppe (4/17) Sep 23 2015 Because I want to focus on the product I am building right now,
• Edwin van Leeuwen (5/7) Sep 24 2015 You could try including the c source in your repo and add
• Sebastiaan Koppe (7/11) Sep 24 2015 I want to use dub.
• Atila Neves (4/10) Sep 24 2015 Yes.
• Sebastiaan Koppe (7/11) Sep 24 2015 That is nice.
• Adam D. Ruppe (5/7) Sep 24 2015 We should write a C to D converter. We have htod but I'm talking
• Sebastiaan Koppe (7/15) Sep 24 2015 It would be really cool to have that. But aren't there a lot of
• Laeeth Isharc (5/21) Sep 24 2015 nice work!
• Sebastiaan Koppe (5/8) Sep 24 2015 To be honest it took me 2 hours, starting from git clone
• Laeeth Isharc (13/21) Sep 24 2015 Great! I think it's clear more blog posts will be something that
• Sebastiaan Koppe (5/12) Sep 24 2015 I meant if there is already a place where I can upload my post
• tired_eyes (4/6) Sep 25 2015 OT:
• bachmeier (3/9) Sep 25 2015 I've long agreed with that. Now that we have "This Week in D" we
• Adam D. Ruppe (6/12) Sep 25 2015 FYI, if you guys want to set something up for multiple
• bachmeier (11/16) Sep 25 2015 That's a possibility too, but I like the idea of you continuing
• bachmeier (2/4) Sep 25 2015 Should I create a new thread to open discussion on the topic?
• Laeeth Isharc (2/6) Sep 25 2015 yes!
• Laeeth Isharc (9/15) Sep 25 2015 +1
• Andre Polykanine via Digitalmars-d-learn (8/8) Sep 25 2015 Hello tired_eyes,
• bachmeier (6/33) Sep 25 2015 It seems this would be good content for the wiki. If we put this

Sebastiaan Koppe <mail skoppe.eu> writes:

I have just created bindings for libxlsxwriter, an c library for 
creating excel files.

Used the htod tool to do most of the work, and only had to adjust 
some things - mainly because libxlsxwriter uses data structures 
written in macro's.

Right now I am making a dub package and I would like to aim for 
convenience for end-users (read: me).

Therefor I decided to include the compiled static library inside 
the package. I only use Linux 64-bit myself, but this is 
obviously limiting for other people.

The other option I had was to include the whole c code, depend on 
gcc or clang, and have dub  (somehow) first build libxlsxwriter. 
But that seemed a bit too much...

Another option would be to require end-users to build 
libxlsxwriter themselves.

What do you guys recommend?

Rikki Cattermole <alphaglosined gmail.com> writes:

On 24/09/15 2:43 PM, Sebastiaan Koppe wrote:
 I have just created bindings for libxlsxwriter, an c library for
 creating excel files.

 Used the htod tool to do most of the work, and only had to adjust some
 things - mainly because libxlsxwriter uses data structures written in
 macro's.

 Right now I am making a dub package and I would like to aim for
 convenience for end-users (read: me).

 Therefor I decided to include the compiled static library inside the
 package. I only use Linux 64-bit myself, but this is obviously limiting
 for other people.

 The other option I had was to include the whole c code, depend on gcc or
 clang, and have dub  (somehow) first build libxlsxwriter. But that
 seemed a bit too much...

 Another option would be to require end-users to build libxlsxwriter
 themselves.

 What do you guys recommend?

Is libxlsxwriter available in the systems package manager?
If so, I would just link against that. Preferably the shared library.
Let e.g. Windows users figure theirs out.

Sebastiaan Koppe <mail skoppe.eu> writes:

On Thursday, 24 September 2015 at 04:17:14 UTC, Rikki Cattermole 
wrote:
 Is libxlsxwriter available in the systems package manager?

Pacman says no.

 Let e.g. Windows users figure theirs out.

libxlsxwriter is not supported on windows. Which is kind-of funny.

Rikki Cattermole <alphaglosined gmail.com> writes:

On 24/09/15 5:51 PM, Sebastiaan Koppe wrote:
 On Thursday, 24 September 2015 at 04:17:14 UTC, Rikki Cattermole wrote:
 Is libxlsxwriter available in the systems package manager?

 Pacman says no.

 Let e.g. Windows users figure theirs out.

 libxlsxwriter is not supported on windows. Which is kind-of funny.

I've taken a look at it.
Why not just port it?

Sebastiaan Koppe <mail skoppe.eu> writes:

On Thursday, 24 September 2015 at 06:00:50 UTC, Rikki Cattermole 
wrote:
 On 24/09/15 5:51 PM, Sebastiaan Koppe wrote:
 On Thursday, 24 September 2015 at 04:17:14 UTC, Rikki 
 Cattermole wrote:
 Is libxlsxwriter available in the systems package manager?

 Pacman says no.

 Let e.g. Windows users figure theirs out.

 libxlsxwriter is not supported on windows. Which is kind-of 
 funny.

 I've taken a look at it.
 Why not just port it?

Because I want to focus on the product I am building right now, 
not on side-projects.

Edwin van Leeuwen <edder tkwsping.nl> writes:

On Thursday, 24 September 2015 at 06:21:02 UTC, Sebastiaan Koppe 
wrote:
 Because I want to focus on the product I am building right now, 
 not on side-projects.

You could try including the c source in your repo and add 
preBuildCommands to the dub config which builds the static 
library. Alternatively you could use reggea to build both.

Sebastiaan Koppe <mail skoppe.eu> writes:

On Thursday, 24 September 2015 at 08:35:40 UTC, Edwin van Leeuwen 
wrote:
 Alternatively you could use reggea to build both.

I want to use dub.

Simply because of code.dlang.org. Or can reggae also pull 
packages from there?

 You could try including the c source in your repo and add 
 preBuildCommands to the dub config which builds the static 
 library.

preBuildCommands seems to be the way to go.

Thank you all.

Atila Neves <atila.neves gmail.com> writes:

On Thursday, 24 September 2015 at 11:38:08 UTC, Sebastiaan Koppe 
wrote:
 On Thursday, 24 September 2015 at 08:35:40 UTC, Edwin van 
 Leeuwen wrote:
 Alternatively you could use reggea to build both.

 I want to use dub.

 Simply because of code.dlang.org. Or can reggae also pull 
 packages from there?

Yes.

Atila

Sebastiaan Koppe <mail skoppe.eu> writes:

On Friday, 25 September 2015 at 01:36:11 UTC, Atila Neves wrote:
 On Thursday, 24 September 2015 at 11:38:08 UTC, Sebastiaan 
 Koppe wrote:
 Or can reggae also pull packages from there?

 Yes.

That is nice.

I look at reggae once or twice. It looked like a lot of 
bootstrapping vs. `dub init && dub build`. And to be honest, I 
couldn't make immediate sense of the api.

Is there any small example that builds some d code (including 
pulling deps)?

Adam D. Ruppe <destructionator gmail.com> writes:

On Thursday, 24 September 2015 at 06:21:02 UTC, Sebastiaan Koppe 
wrote:
 Because I want to focus on the product I am building right now, 
 not on side-projects.

We should write a C to D converter. We have htod but I'm talking 
the whole source of it. That might be useful for times like this.

But I have other things to do too...

Sebastiaan Koppe <mail skoppe.eu> writes:

On Thursday, 24 September 2015 at 12:55:12 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe 
wrote:
 On Thursday, 24 September 2015 at 06:21:02 UTC, Sebastiaan 
 Koppe wrote:
 Because I want to focus on the product I am building right 
 now, not on side-projects.

 We should write a C to D converter. We have htod but I'm 
 talking the whole source of it. That might be useful for times 
 like this.

 But I have other things to do too...

It would be really cool to have that. But aren't there a lot of 
corner cases that require manual intervention?

Having said that, htod has been invaluable. And if I decide to 
port it, ctod will be invaluable as well, even though it won't 
get it 100% right.

Laeeth Isharc <laeethnospam nospamlaeeth.com> writes:

On Thursday, 24 September 2015 at 02:43:20 UTC, Sebastiaan Koppe 
wrote:
 I have just created bindings for libxlsxwriter, an c library 
 for creating excel files.

 Used the htod tool to do most of the work, and only had to 
 adjust some things - mainly because libxlsxwriter uses data 
 structures written in macro's.

 Right now I am making a dub package and I would like to aim for 
 convenience for end-users (read: me).

 Therefor I decided to include the compiled static library 
 inside the package. I only use Linux 64-bit myself, but this is 
 obviously limiting for other people.

 The other option I had was to include the whole c code, depend 
 on gcc or clang, and have dub  (somehow) first build 
 libxlsxwriter. But that seemed a bit too much...

 Another option would be to require end-users to build 
 libxlsxwriter themselves.

 What do you guys recommend?

nice work!

worth a little blog post on the experience so others can be 
inspired by and benefit from yours?

Sebastiaan Koppe <mail skoppe.eu> writes:

On Thursday, 24 September 2015 at 18:19:49 UTC, Laeeth Isharc 
wrote:
 nice work!

To be honest it took me 2 hours, starting from git clone

 worth a little blog post on the experience so others can be 
 inspired by and benefit from yours?

I would be happy to write something. Any particular blog 
platform? Or do I first have to roll out my own?

Laeeth Isharc <Laeeth.nospam nospam-laeeth.com> writes:

On Friday, 25 September 2015 at 01:48:57 UTC, Sebastiaan Koppe 
wrote:
 On Thursday, 24 September 2015 at 18:19:49 UTC, Laeeth Isharc 
 wrote:
 nice work!

 To be honest it took me 2 hours, starting from git clone

 worth a little blog post on the experience so others can be 
 inspired by and benefit from yours?

 I would be happy to write something. Any particular blog 
 platform? Or do I first have to roll out my own?

Great!  I think it's clear more blog posts will be something that 
helps open up awareness to value of D.  Little things 
cumulatively make a big difference, and you'll more than get back 
the effort invested one way and another over time.

Blog platform - I guess nothing wrong with wordpress etc.  I am 
between platforms right now.  I just don't want to deal with 
wordpress any more, and haven't yet picked something I like 
better.  Something like Nikola and dicebot's mood with an nginx 
proxy seems appealing.  Mood is v nice but not quite mature / 
stable yet.  I like idea of everything in D so it's easy to 
understand and extend as you wish.

Sebastiaan Koppe <mail skoppe.eu> writes:

On Friday, 25 September 2015 at 06:04:09 UTC, Laeeth Isharc wrote:
 Blog platform - I guess nothing wrong with wordpress etc.  I am 
 between platforms right now.  I just don't want to deal with 
 wordpress any more, and haven't yet picked something I like 
 better.  Something like Nikola and dicebot's mood with an nginx 
 proxy seems appealing.  Mood is v nice but not quite mature / 
 stable yet.  I like idea of everything in D so it's easy to 
 understand and extend as you wish.

I meant if there is already a place where I can upload my post 
to. Something like blog.dlang.org

I might go with mood. But I would probably dockerize it and run 
it behind jwilder/nginx-proxy.

tired_eyes <pastuhov85 gmail.com> writes:

 I meant if there is already a place where I can upload my post 
 to. Something like blog.dlang.org

OT:
Once again, I'm absolutely sure tha D should have an official 
blog! Forums can't replace blogs, forums are for discussions, not 
for content presentation.

bachmeier <no spam.com> writes:

On Friday, 25 September 2015 at 12:25:52 UTC, tired_eyes wrote:
 I meant if there is already a place where I can upload my post 
 to. Something like blog.dlang.org

 OT:
 Once again, I'm absolutely sure tha D should have an official 
 blog! Forums can't replace blogs, forums are for discussions, 
 not for content presentation.

I've long agreed with that. Now that we have "This Week in D" we 
have a regular source for content.

Adam D. Ruppe <destructionator gmail.com> writes:

On Friday, 25 September 2015 at 14:15:20 UTC, bachmeier wrote:
 On Friday, 25 September 2015 at 12:25:52 UTC, tired_eyes wrote:
 Once again, I'm absolutely sure tha D should have an official 
 blog! Forums can't replace blogs, forums are for discussions, 
 not for content presentation.

 I've long agreed with that. Now that we have "This Week in D" 
 we have a regular source for content.

FYI, if you guys want to set something up for multiple 
contributors like a traditional blog, I'm willing to move TWID do 
it.

I've been kinda wanting to do a blog thing but I just haven't 
brought myself to set anything up.

bachmeier <no spam.com> writes:

On Friday, 25 September 2015 at 14:24:36 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:

 FYI, if you guys want to set something up for multiple 
 contributors like a traditional blog, I'm willing to move TWID 
 do it.

 I've been kinda wanting to do a blog thing but I just haven't 
 brought myself to set anything up.

That's a possibility too, but I like the idea of you continuing 
to do what you've been doing, and then on the blog there is an 
announcement of the new issue of TWID along with a short 
discussion and a link to the whole thing.

d.announce is pretty busy these days. I've always felt those 
posts were more appropriate for an official blog. As would things 
like the subject of this thread, rather than letting it get 
buried in the forum.

First issue would be getting approval from Walter and Andrei. 
Second would be finding someone that knows how to do it.

bachmeier <no spam.com> writes:

On Friday, 25 September 2015 at 15:06:41 UTC, bachmeier wrote:

 First issue would be getting approval from Walter and Andrei. 
 Second would be finding someone that knows how to do it.

Should I create a new thread to open discussion on the topic?

Laeeth Isharc <spamnolaeeth nospamlaeeth.com> writes:

On Friday, 25 September 2015 at 15:08:00 UTC, bachmeier wrote:
 On Friday, 25 September 2015 at 15:06:41 UTC, bachmeier wrote:

 First issue would be getting approval from Walter and Andrei. 
 Second would be finding someone that knows how to do it.

 Should I create a new thread to open discussion on the topic?

yes!

Laeeth Isharc <spamnolaeeth nospamlaeeth.com> writes:

On Friday, 25 September 2015 at 12:25:52 UTC, tired_eyes wrote:
 I meant if there is already a place where I can upload my post 
 to. Something like blog.dlang.org

 OT:
 Once again, I'm absolutely sure tha D should have an official 
 blog! Forums can't replace blogs, forums are for discussions, 
 not for content presentation.

+1

It also encourages people to write guest pieces, because you know 
the work is not wasted as it reaches a broader audience.

Also, as regards existing D blogs - Planet D was a great start 
but is a little bit tired.  Some blogs are now defunct and 
haven't been updated for years.  It would be great to still have 
a link to them, but they shouldn't be all mixed up - current and 
stale.

Andre Polykanine via Digitalmars-d-learn writes:

Hello tired_eyes,

tevDdl> Once again, I'm absolutely sure tha D should have an official
tevDdl> blog! Forums can't replace blogs, forums are for discussions, not 
tevDdl> for content presentation.

+1 on this.

-- 
With best regards from Ukraine,
Andre

bachmeier <no spam.net> writes:

On Thursday, 24 September 2015 at 18:19:49 UTC, Laeeth Isharc 
wrote:
 On Thursday, 24 September 2015 at 02:43:20 UTC, Sebastiaan 
 Koppe wrote:
 I have just created bindings for libxlsxwriter, an c library 
 for creating excel files.

 Used the htod tool to do most of the work, and only had to 
 adjust some things - mainly because libxlsxwriter uses data 
 structures written in macro's.

 Right now I am making a dub package and I would like to aim 
 for convenience for end-users (read: me).

 Therefor I decided to include the compiled static library 
 inside the package. I only use Linux 64-bit myself, but this 
 is obviously limiting for other people.

 The other option I had was to include the whole c code, depend 
 on gcc or clang, and have dub  (somehow) first build 
 libxlsxwriter. But that seemed a bit too much...

 Another option would be to require end-users to build 
 libxlsxwriter themselves.

 What do you guys recommend?

 nice work!

 worth a little blog post on the experience so others can be 
 inspired by and benefit from yours?

It seems this would be good content for the wiki. If we put this 
sort of thing there, others will start to look at the wiki, and 
Google will send them there. That wouldn't prevent anyone from 
also posting the same content on their own blog.