cppconv

Cppconv is a tool for converting C and C++ code to D. It was used to generate the bindings for Qt in DQt. Currently, the converter is still a work in progress. It contains some special cases for Qt and manual changes to the resulting D files are necessary. Depending on the use case, one of the alternatives could be better.

See docs/cppconv.md for some documentation. The program cppconv can be built with dub and used directly, but for existing projects there is also build.d, which downloads the source code for the projects and runs cppconv with the correct parameters.

The converter uses a parser for C/C++ generated with DParserGen. It tries to convert conditional compilation with the preprocessor into equivalent D code using version or static if. Unfortunately the number of combinations can get very large depending on settings, so the converter can easily run out of memory.

License

Boost Software License, Version 1.0. See file LICENSE_1_0.txt.

Alternatives

There are different alternatives to use C/C++ headers from D or convert them to D code:

• https://dlang.org/spec/importc.html
• https://github.com/jacob-carlborg/dstep
• https://github.com/Syniurge/Calypso
• https://github.com/atilaneves/dpp
• https://github.com/Superbelko/ohmygentool
• https://github.com/dkorpel/ctod