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digitalmars.D.learn - Help needed to actualizing allegro bindings (or this bindings are complex and I am dumb)

reply g <L MF.ao.com> writes:
I have been trying to actualize the http://www.dsource.org/projects/dallegro
binings to the lastest D2 version.
The main problems are:
*TLS
*volatile isn't here anymore ( neither with -d ) 

One of the most hard things to understand was things like:

mixin(_volatile("int", "key_shifts"));
and  _volatile_setter things.

Especially when you have things like:

char* allegro_id;

and  then:

import allegro.internal.dintern;
static this() {
   allegro_id = allegro.internal.dintern.allegro_id.ptr;
   allegro_error = allegro.internal.dintern.allegro_error.ptr;
   cpu_vendor = allegro.internal.dintern.cpu_vendor.ptr;
   //_system_driver_list = allegro.misc._system_driver_list.ptr;
}
A strange way of wraping.

Sooooooooo...
Are there other bindings to allegro?
Does anyone has actualized this bindings?
Is Someone interested in helping?
Should i abdicate? 

g
Nov 14 2009
next sibling parent reply g <L MF.ao.com> writes:
g Wrote:


 I have been trying to actualize the http://www.dsource.org/projects/dallegro
binings to the lastest 


 typo: it is bindings, not binings
Nov 14 2009
parent reply div0 <div0 users.sourceforge.net> writes:
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g wrote:

 g Wrote:
 

 I have been trying to actualize the http://www.dsource.org/projects/dallegro
binings to the lastest 


  typo: it is bindings, not binings


Downgrade your compiler version.

Every version after 2.028 has bugs which prevent non trivial programmes
compiling or have language changes which break just about ever existing
library.

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My enormous talent is exceeded only by my outrageous laziness.
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Nov 15 2009
parent g <nospam spam.ironic> writes:
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 g Wrote:
 

 I have been trying to actualize the http://www.dsource.org/projects/dallegro
binings to the lastest 


  typo: it is bindings, not binings


 
 Downgrade your compiler version.
 
 Every version after 2.028 has bugs which prevent non trivial programmes
 compiling or have language changes which break just about ever existing
 library.
 
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actually i have engine code that only compiles with new features.
Nov 15 2009
prev sibling parent torhu <no spam.invalid> writes:
On 15.11.2009 08:53, g wrote:

 I have been trying to actualize the http://www.dsource.org/projects/dallegro
binings to the lastest D2 version.
 The main problems are:
 *TLS
 *volatile isn't here anymore ( neither with -d )


You can remove volatile by just building with -version=NoVolatile.  But 
I suppose it won't work unless you add __gshared to all the non-const 
globals.  Or something, I'm not using D 2 myself.


 One of the most hard things to understand was things like:

 mixin(_volatile("int", "key_shifts"));
 and  _volatile_setter things.


It's to make it easy to build both with and without volatile.  Most of 
this stuff is explained in the readme or somewhere in the code itself.


 Especially when you have things like:

 char* allegro_id;

 and  then:

 import allegro.internal.dintern;
 static this() {
     allegro_id = allegro.internal.dintern.allegro_id.ptr;
     allegro_error = allegro.internal.dintern.allegro_error.ptr;
     cpu_vendor = allegro.internal.dintern.cpu_vendor.ptr;
     //_system_driver_list = allegro.misc._system_driver_list.ptr;
 }
 A strange way of wraping.

 Sooooooooo...
 Are there other bindings to allegro?
 Does anyone has actualized this bindings?
 Is Someone interested in helping?
 Should i abdicate?

 g


I know there's someone working on allegro 5 bindings, but I don't think 
they're done yet.  No announcement has been made.  But if you want to 
update dallegro, I'll try to answer questions at least.
Nov 15 2009