• Regan Heath <regan netmail.co.nz> Jun 03 2007
• Bill Baxter <dnewsgroup billbaxter.com> Jun 03 2007
• Kyle Furlong <kylefurlong gmail.com> Jun 03 2007
• Daniel919 <Daniel919 web.de> Jun 03 2007
• Gregor Richards <Richards codu.org> Jun 03 2007
• Bill Baxter <dnewsgroup billbaxter.com> Jun 03 2007
• Regan Heath <regan netmail.co.nz> Jun 04 2007
• Bill Baxter <dnewsgroup billbaxter.com> Jun 04 2007
• Frits van Bommel <fvbommel REMwOVExCAPSs.nl> Jun 04 2007
• Regan Heath <regan netmail.co.nz> Jun 04 2007
• Bill Baxter <dnewsgroup billbaxter.com> Jun 04 2007
• Dan <murpsoft hotmail.com> Jun 04 2007

Regan Heath <regan netmail.co.nz> writes:

Hi all,

I decided to have another crack at BCD and the openssl headers.  I found a
windows bcdgen binary package, mentioned in the dsource forums, but am having a
little trouble using it.

So far I have a copy of the openssl headers in a directory:

G:\Src\openssl\h\openssl

and plan to port them to D files in:

G:\Src\openssl\d\

so, I fire up bcdgen like so:

G:\Src\openssl\h>bcdgen openssl\ssl.h openssl -b -C
openssl/ssl.h:173:27: openssl/e_os2.h: No such file or directory
openssl/ssl.h:176:26: openssl/comp.h: No such file or directory
openssl/ssl.h:179:25: openssl/bio.h: No such file or directory
openssl/ssl.h:183:26: openssl/x509.h: No such file or directory
openssl/ssl.h:185:28: openssl/crypto.h: No such file or directory
openssl/ssl.h:186:27: openssl/lhash.h: No such file or directory
openssl/ssl.h:187:28: openssl/buffer.h: No such file or directory
openssl/ssl.h:189:25: openssl/pem.h: No such file or directory
openssl/ssl.h:191:26: openssl/kssl.h: No such file or directory
openssl/ssl.h:192:31: openssl/safestack.h: No such file or directory
openssl/ssl.h:193:30: openssl/symhacks.h: No such file or directory
openssl/ssl.h:982:26: openssl/ssl2.h: No such file or directory
openssl/ssl.h:983:26: openssl/ssl3.h: No such file or directory
openssl/ssl.h:984:71: openssl/tls1.h: No such file or directory
openssl/ssl.h:985:46: openssl/dtls1.h: No such file or directory
openssl/ssl.h:986:27: openssl/ssl23.h: No such file or directory

I tried various permutations of the -I option but I dont think it applies here
as I am converting C headers, not C++.  

Anyone have a suggestion?  bcdgen seems to need an option for specifying import
paths or something.

Hopefully I am not being too dense, any help is appreciated.

Regan Heath

Bill Baxter <dnewsgroup billbaxter.com> writes:

Regan Heath wrote:
 Hi all,
...ied various permutations of the -I option but I dont think it applies here
as I am converting C headers, not C++.  


Why wouldn't the -I option apply to C files?

 Anyone have a suggestion?  bcdgen seems to need an option for specifying
import paths or something.
 
 Hopefully I am not being too dense, any help is appreciated.
 
 Regan Heath


Does setting the INCLUDE environment variable do anything?  I don't know 
if it's supposed to, but if you're stuck, well, at least it's something 
you can try till Gregor gets back to you.

--bb

Kyle Furlong <kylefurlong gmail.com> writes:

Regan Heath wrote:
 Hi all,
 
 I decided to have another crack at BCD and the openssl headers.  I found a
windows bcdgen binary package, mentioned in the dsource forums, but am having a
little trouble using it.
 
 So far I have a copy of the openssl headers in a directory:
 
 G:\Src\openssl\h\openssl
 
 and plan to port them to D files in:
 
 G:\Src\openssl\d\
 
 so, I fire up bcdgen like so:
 
 G:\Src\openssl\h>bcdgen openssl\ssl.h openssl -b -C
 openssl/ssl.h:173:27: openssl/e_os2.h: No such file or directory
 openssl/ssl.h:176:26: openssl/comp.h: No such file or directory
 openssl/ssl.h:179:25: openssl/bio.h: No such file or directory
 openssl/ssl.h:183:26: openssl/x509.h: No such file or directory
 openssl/ssl.h:185:28: openssl/crypto.h: No such file or directory
 openssl/ssl.h:186:27: openssl/lhash.h: No such file or directory
 openssl/ssl.h:187:28: openssl/buffer.h: No such file or directory
 openssl/ssl.h:189:25: openssl/pem.h: No such file or directory
 openssl/ssl.h:191:26: openssl/kssl.h: No such file or directory
 openssl/ssl.h:192:31: openssl/safestack.h: No such file or directory
 openssl/ssl.h:193:30: openssl/symhacks.h: No such file or directory
 openssl/ssl.h:982:26: openssl/ssl2.h: No such file or directory
 openssl/ssl.h:983:26: openssl/ssl3.h: No such file or directory
 openssl/ssl.h:984:71: openssl/tls1.h: No such file or directory
 openssl/ssl.h:985:46: openssl/dtls1.h: No such file or directory
 openssl/ssl.h:986:27: openssl/ssl23.h: No such file or directory
 
 I tried various permutations of the -I option but I dont think it applies here
as I am converting C headers, not C++.  
 
 Anyone have a suggestion?  bcdgen seems to need an option for specifying
import paths or something.
 
 Hopefully I am not being too dense, any help is appreciated.
 
 Regan Heath


bcd uses gcc-xml to do the C++ parsing, so you need to set the 
environment variables that it uses in order for it to fuction correctly. 
Off the top of my head, I think its some variant of CXXFLAGS? Check the 
gcc-xml docs though.

Daniel919 <Daniel919 web.de> writes:

Hi, I put the openssl directory into: C:\bcdgen\gccxml\include
and then used bcdgen from C:\bcdgen\gccxml\include\openssl

But as far as I can remember, the windows package of bcdgen was hanging 
on some files when trying to convert.
The linux version was working. And the generated d files can be used on 
windows, too.
Anyway, just give it a try. Maybe this has been fixed in the meantime.


As I said, a full port of openssl would be nice.
I even thought of some improvements, like using classes:
Instead of SSL_CTX_ctrl(ctx,SSL_CTRL_SESS_TIMEOUTS,0,NULL):
class SSL_CTX {
   void ctrl(...) {...}
}
SSL_CTX ctx;
ctx.ctrl(SSL_CTRL_SESS_TIMEOUTS,0,NULL);
This would even allow IDEs to use code-completion for the ssl
functions, like it's the case with all classes.

Best regards,
Daniel

Gregor Richards <Richards codu.org> writes:

Regan Heath wrote:
 Hi all,
 
 I decided to have another crack at BCD and the openssl headers.  I found a
windows bcdgen binary package, mentioned in the dsource forums, but am having a
little trouble using it.
 
 So far I have a copy of the openssl headers in a directory:
 
 G:\Src\openssl\h\openssl
 
 and plan to port them to D files in:
 
 G:\Src\openssl\d\
 
 so, I fire up bcdgen like so:
 
 G:\Src\openssl\h>bcdgen openssl\ssl.h openssl -b -C
 openssl/ssl.h:173:27: openssl/e_os2.h: No such file or directory
 openssl/ssl.h:176:26: openssl/comp.h: No such file or directory
 openssl/ssl.h:179:25: openssl/bio.h: No such file or directory
 openssl/ssl.h:183:26: openssl/x509.h: No such file or directory
 openssl/ssl.h:185:28: openssl/crypto.h: No such file or directory
 openssl/ssl.h:186:27: openssl/lhash.h: No such file or directory
 openssl/ssl.h:187:28: openssl/buffer.h: No such file or directory
 openssl/ssl.h:189:25: openssl/pem.h: No such file or directory
 openssl/ssl.h:191:26: openssl/kssl.h: No such file or directory
 openssl/ssl.h:192:31: openssl/safestack.h: No such file or directory
 openssl/ssl.h:193:30: openssl/symhacks.h: No such file or directory
 openssl/ssl.h:982:26: openssl/ssl2.h: No such file or directory
 openssl/ssl.h:983:26: openssl/ssl3.h: No such file or directory
 openssl/ssl.h:984:71: openssl/tls1.h: No such file or directory
 openssl/ssl.h:985:46: openssl/dtls1.h: No such file or directory
 openssl/ssl.h:986:27: openssl/ssl23.h: No such file or directory
 
 I tried various permutations of the -I option but I dont think it applies here
as I am converting C headers, not C++.  
 
 Anyone have a suggestion?  bcdgen seems to need an option for specifying
import paths or something.
 
 Hopefully I am not being too dense, any help is appreciated.
 
 Regan Heath


(WTF? People use BCD?)

You need to put the include path in CFLAGS for C, or CXXFLAGS for C++. 
That is: set CFLAGS=-I<your_favorite_path>

The -I flag to bcd.gen should be -Iopenssl/ (it's the path prepended to 
the header names in #include lines)

Yeah, I know, bcd.gen isn't well documented ... if people actually use 
it I may have to get back around to developing it :P

  - Gregor Richards

Bill Baxter <dnewsgroup billbaxter.com> writes:

Gregor Richards wrote:
 Regan Heath wrote:
 Hi all,

 I decided to have another crack at BCD and the openssl headers.  I 
 found a windows bcdgen binary package, mentioned in the dsource 
 forums, but am having a little trouble using it.

 So far I have a copy of the openssl headers in a directory:

 G:\Src\openssl\h\openssl

 and plan to port them to D files in:

 G:\Src\openssl\d\

 so, I fire up bcdgen like so:

 G:\Src\openssl\h>bcdgen openssl\ssl.h openssl -b -C
 openssl/ssl.h:173:27: openssl/e_os2.h: No such file or directory
 openssl/ssl.h:176:26: openssl/comp.h: No such file or directory
 openssl/ssl.h:179:25: openssl/bio.h: No such file or directory
 openssl/ssl.h:183:26: openssl/x509.h: No such file or directory
 openssl/ssl.h:185:28: openssl/crypto.h: No such file or directory
 openssl/ssl.h:186:27: openssl/lhash.h: No such file or directory
 openssl/ssl.h:187:28: openssl/buffer.h: No such file or directory
 openssl/ssl.h:189:25: openssl/pem.h: No such file or directory
 openssl/ssl.h:191:26: openssl/kssl.h: No such file or directory
 openssl/ssl.h:192:31: openssl/safestack.h: No such file or directory
 openssl/ssl.h:193:30: openssl/symhacks.h: No such file or directory
 openssl/ssl.h:982:26: openssl/ssl2.h: No such file or directory
 openssl/ssl.h:983:26: openssl/ssl3.h: No such file or directory
 openssl/ssl.h:984:71: openssl/tls1.h: No such file or directory
 openssl/ssl.h:985:46: openssl/dtls1.h: No such file or directory
 openssl/ssl.h:986:27: openssl/ssl23.h: No such file or directory

 I tried various permutations of the -I option but I dont think it 
 applies here as I am converting C headers, not C++. 
 Anyone have a suggestion?  bcdgen seems to need an option for 
 specifying import paths or something.

 Hopefully I am not being too dense, any help is appreciated.

 Regan Heath


 (WTF? People use BCD?)
 
 You need to put the include path in CFLAGS for C, or CXXFLAGS for C++. 
 That is: set CFLAGS=-I<your_favorite_path>
 
 The -I flag to bcd.gen should be -Iopenssl/ (it's the path prepended to 
 the header names in #include lines)
 
 Yeah, I know, bcd.gen isn't well documented ... if people actually use 
 it I may have to get back around to developing it :P
 


I was looking into using it to wrap SuperLU after looking at SuperLU's 
headers and realizing that the API was going to take a lot of work to 
wrap by hand.  However I only managed to get most of the way through 
installing BCD's prerequisites so far.  But I'll probably get back to it 
before too long.

--bb

Regan Heath <regan netmail.co.nz> writes:

Bill Baxter Wrote:
 Gregor Richards wrote:
 Regan Heath wrote:
 Hi all,

 I decided to have another crack at BCD and the openssl headers.  I 
 found a windows bcdgen binary package, mentioned in the dsource 
 forums, but am having a little trouble using it.

 So far I have a copy of the openssl headers in a directory:

 G:\Src\openssl\h\openssl

 and plan to port them to D files in:

 G:\Src\openssl\d\

 so, I fire up bcdgen like so:

 G:\Src\openssl\h>bcdgen openssl\ssl.h openssl -b -C
 openssl/ssl.h:173:27: openssl/e_os2.h: No such file or directory
 openssl/ssl.h:176:26: openssl/comp.h: No such file or directory
 openssl/ssl.h:179:25: openssl/bio.h: No such file or directory
 openssl/ssl.h:183:26: openssl/x509.h: No such file or directory
 openssl/ssl.h:185:28: openssl/crypto.h: No such file or directory
 openssl/ssl.h:186:27: openssl/lhash.h: No such file or directory
 openssl/ssl.h:187:28: openssl/buffer.h: No such file or directory
 openssl/ssl.h:189:25: openssl/pem.h: No such file or directory
 openssl/ssl.h:191:26: openssl/kssl.h: No such file or directory
 openssl/ssl.h:192:31: openssl/safestack.h: No such file or directory
 openssl/ssl.h:193:30: openssl/symhacks.h: No such file or directory
 openssl/ssl.h:982:26: openssl/ssl2.h: No such file or directory
 openssl/ssl.h:983:26: openssl/ssl3.h: No such file or directory
 openssl/ssl.h:984:71: openssl/tls1.h: No such file or directory
 openssl/ssl.h:985:46: openssl/dtls1.h: No such file or directory
 openssl/ssl.h:986:27: openssl/ssl23.h: No such file or directory

 I tried various permutations of the -I option but I dont think it 
 applies here as I am converting C headers, not C++. 
 Anyone have a suggestion?  bcdgen seems to need an option for 
 specifying import paths or something.

 Hopefully I am not being too dense, any help is appreciated.

 Regan Heath


 (WTF? People use BCD?)
 
 You need to put the include path in CFLAGS for C, or CXXFLAGS for C++. 
 That is: set CFLAGS=-I<your_favorite_path>
 
 The -I flag to bcd.gen should be -Iopenssl/ (it's the path prepended to 
 the header names in #include lines)
 
 Yeah, I know, bcd.gen isn't well documented ... if people actually use 
 it I may have to get back around to developing it :P
 


 I was looking into using it to wrap SuperLU after looking at SuperLU's 
 headers and realizing that the API was going to take a lot of work to 
 wrap by hand.  However I only managed to get most of the way through 
 installing BCD's prerequisites so far.  But I'll probably get back to it 
 before too long.


Yeah, the prereqs almost stopped me from trying it in the first place.  First
try and I got the prereqs installed, I thought, but the compile wouldn't work
(I'm on windows).  Next try and half way thru I realised there was a binary
package I could download to avoid all this jumping through hoops, so I took it.

Ages ago I started writing a BCD program myself, but without the foresight to
use an existing compiler front end and XML as an intermediate format.  That and
I thought writing a compiler might be fun, and enlightening.  I managed to
write the lexer/tokenizer for C and was working on the C preprocessor when I
went away to South America for 6 months.  When I got back Gregor had beaten me
to it!

I think BCD is (and could be much more) hugely useful in D gaining traction,
especially if you consider the huge number of C/C++ libraries we could be
offering.  The web/install idea is genius, that in itself could make people
switch.

Regan Heath

Bill Baxter <dnewsgroup billbaxter.com> writes:

Regan Heath wrote:
 Bill Baxter Wrote:
 Gregor Richards wrote:
 Regan Heath wrote:
 Hi all,

 I decided to have another crack at BCD and the openssl headers.  I 
 found a windows bcdgen binary package, mentioned in the dsource 
 forums, but am having a little trouble using it.

 So far I have a copy of the openssl headers in a directory:

 G:\Src\openssl\h\openssl

 and plan to port them to D files in:

 G:\Src\openssl\d\

 so, I fire up bcdgen like so:

 G:\Src\openssl\h>bcdgen openssl\ssl.h openssl -b -C
 openssl/ssl.h:173:27: openssl/e_os2.h: No such file or directory
 openssl/ssl.h:176:26: openssl/comp.h: No such file or directory
 openssl/ssl.h:179:25: openssl/bio.h: No such file or directory
 openssl/ssl.h:183:26: openssl/x509.h: No such file or directory
 openssl/ssl.h:185:28: openssl/crypto.h: No such file or directory
 openssl/ssl.h:186:27: openssl/lhash.h: No such file or directory
 openssl/ssl.h:187:28: openssl/buffer.h: No such file or directory
 openssl/ssl.h:189:25: openssl/pem.h: No such file or directory
 openssl/ssl.h:191:26: openssl/kssl.h: No such file or directory
 openssl/ssl.h:192:31: openssl/safestack.h: No such file or directory
 openssl/ssl.h:193:30: openssl/symhacks.h: No such file or directory
 openssl/ssl.h:982:26: openssl/ssl2.h: No such file or directory
 openssl/ssl.h:983:26: openssl/ssl3.h: No such file or directory
 openssl/ssl.h:984:71: openssl/tls1.h: No such file or directory
 openssl/ssl.h:985:46: openssl/dtls1.h: No such file or directory
 openssl/ssl.h:986:27: openssl/ssl23.h: No such file or directory

 I tried various permutations of the -I option but I dont think it 
 applies here as I am converting C headers, not C++. 
 Anyone have a suggestion?  bcdgen seems to need an option for 
 specifying import paths or something.

 Hopefully I am not being too dense, any help is appreciated.

 Regan Heath



 You need to put the include path in CFLAGS for C, or CXXFLAGS for C++. 
 That is: set CFLAGS=-I<your_favorite_path>

 The -I flag to bcd.gen should be -Iopenssl/ (it's the path prepended to 
 the header names in #include lines)

 Yeah, I know, bcd.gen isn't well documented ... if people actually use 
 it I may have to get back around to developing it :P


 headers and realizing that the API was going to take a lot of work to 
 wrap by hand.  However I only managed to get most of the way through 
 installing BCD's prerequisites so far.  But I'll probably get back to it 
 before too long.


 Yeah, the prereqs almost stopped me from trying it in the first place.  First
try and I got the prereqs installed, I thought, but the compile wouldn't work
(I'm on windows).  Next try and half way thru I realised there was a binary
package I could download to avoid all this jumping through hoops, so I took it.
 
 Ages ago I started writing a BCD program myself, but without the foresight to
use an existing compiler front end and XML as an intermediate format.  That and
I thought writing a compiler might be fun, and enlightening.  I managed to
write the lexer/tokenizer for C and was working on the C preprocessor when I
went away to South America for 6 months.  When I got back Gregor had beaten me
to it!
 
 I think BCD is (and could be much more) hugely useful in D gaining traction,
especially if you consider the huge number of C/C++ libraries we could be
offering.  The web/install idea is genius, that in itself could make people
switch.
 
 Regan Heath


Where is this mythical Windows binary for BCD that you found?  Even 
searching for "D programming BCD" I still come up with mostly pages 
about binary coded decimal.

--bb

Frits van Bommel <fvbommel REMwOVExCAPSs.nl> writes:

Bill Baxter wrote:
 Where is this mythical Windows binary for BCD that you found?  Even 
 searching for "D programming BCD" I still come up with mostly pages 
 about binary coded decimal.


It's not linked from the main project page, but it seems to be in the 
SVN repository: http://dsource.org/projects/bcd/browser/downloads

Regan Heath <regan netmail.co.nz> writes:

Frits van Bommel Wrote:
 Bill Baxter wrote:
 Where is this mythical Windows binary for BCD that you found?  Even 
 searching for "D programming BCD" I still come up with mostly pages 
 about binary coded decimal.


 It's not linked from the main project page, but it seems to be in the 
 SVN repository: http://dsource.org/projects/bcd/browser/downloads


Yep, that's it.  I found that link here:
http://www.dsource.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=2504

Regan

Bill Baxter <dnewsgroup billbaxter.com> writes:

Regan Heath wrote:
 Frits van Bommel Wrote:
 Bill Baxter wrote:
 Where is this mythical Windows binary for BCD that you found?  Even 
 searching for "D programming BCD" I still come up with mostly pages 
 about binary coded decimal.


 SVN repository: http://dsource.org/projects/bcd/browser/downloads


 Yep, that's it.  I found that link here:
 http://www.dsource.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=2504
 
 Regan


Beauty.  Thanks.
--bb

Dan <murpsoft hotmail.com> writes:

Gregor Richards Wrote:

 Regan Heath wrote:
 Hi all,
 
 I decided to have another crack at BCD and the openssl headers.  I found a
windows bcdgen binary package, mentioned in the dsource forums, but am having a
little trouble using it.
 
 So far I have a copy of the openssl headers in a directory:
 
 G:\Src\openssl\h\openssl
 
 and plan to port them to D files in:
 
 G:\Src\openssl\d\
 
 so, I fire up bcdgen like so:
 
 G:\Src\openssl\h>bcdgen openssl\ssl.h openssl -b -C
 openssl/ssl.h:173:27: openssl/e_os2.h: No such file or directory
 openssl/ssl.h:176:26: openssl/comp.h: No such file or directory
 openssl/ssl.h:179:25: openssl/bio.h: No such file or directory
 openssl/ssl.h:183:26: openssl/x509.h: No such file or directory
 openssl/ssl.h:185:28: openssl/crypto.h: No such file or directory
 openssl/ssl.h:186:27: openssl/lhash.h: No such file or directory
 openssl/ssl.h:187:28: openssl/buffer.h: No such file or directory
 openssl/ssl.h:189:25: openssl/pem.h: No such file or directory
 openssl/ssl.h:191:26: openssl/kssl.h: No such file or directory
 openssl/ssl.h:192:31: openssl/safestack.h: No such file or directory
 openssl/ssl.h:193:30: openssl/symhacks.h: No such file or directory
 openssl/ssl.h:982:26: openssl/ssl2.h: No such file or directory
 openssl/ssl.h:983:26: openssl/ssl3.h: No such file or directory
 openssl/ssl.h:984:71: openssl/tls1.h: No such file or directory
 openssl/ssl.h:985:46: openssl/dtls1.h: No such file or directory
 openssl/ssl.h:986:27: openssl/ssl23.h: No such file or directory
 
 I tried various permutations of the -I option but I dont think it applies here
as I am converting C headers, not C++.  
 
 Anyone have a suggestion?  bcdgen seems to need an option for specifying
import paths or something.
 
 Hopefully I am not being too dense, any help is appreciated.
 
 Regan Heath


 (WTF? People use BCD?)
 
 You need to put the include path in CFLAGS for C, or CXXFLAGS for C++. 
 That is: set CFLAGS=-I<your_favorite_path>
 
 The -I flag to bcd.gen should be -Iopenssl/ (it's the path prepended to 
 the header names in #include lines)
 
 Yeah, I know, bcd.gen isn't well documented ... if people actually use 
 it I may have to get back around to developing it :P
 
   - Gregor Richards


I've read almost a dozen different people that want to see BCD's C++ feature's
further enhanced.  There are an aweful lot of C++ tools and libraries that are
useful to only C++ programmers and we want them.