On Monday, 12 December 2022 at 15:03:13 UTC, Adam D Ruppe wrote:
On Monday, 12 December 2022 at 11:17:47 UTC, jni wrote:
It's good. But you did the java bindings by hand or is there a
generator in arsd.jni for that too?
It does it automatically. You compile jni.d with
`-version=WithClassLoadSupport` and then write a main function
that calls `jarToD("path/to/file.jar", "whatever.d.name",
"output_directory", JavaTranslatorConfig(true, true, true));`
Or something like that. It has been 3 years lol. But I put some
docs in there too
http://arsd-official.dpldocs.info/arsd.jni.jarToD.html
http://arsd-official.dpldocs.info/arsd.jni.JavaTranslationConfig.html
For the C .h files, I used the `dstep` program
https://github.com/jacob-carlborg/dstep/
with a bit of hand edits after.
I had jni.d already, not so sure if it was from an earlier
module that I have worked on but I am pretty sure that file was
already it was there. I don't know what I could've used it for.
With Dstep I heard of it before maybe 6 years ago and all this
years I thought it was for Objective C, that is why I had to do
those myself using extern, but it was only a few functions. But
this java translator it interests me greatly how with such a
small library it can do that. Does it import a VM that is
different from the JVM for the translation or did you sit down
and write the Java implementation for it yourself? Because it
seemed like a small library when I last took a look. Very nice.
Android is the only phone besides buying a $1,000 iphone and for
me it doesn't really make much sense. Android is much more better
for programming and I myself don't mind its quirks. It's not a
perfect phone but the Kotlin and Java options are just not what I
need in my line of work. Probably some day I will have no choice
but to learn Java again! That is what I expect will happen in the
future and it is laughable, but for now it is a much better thing
to have the D language available to me for writing this simple
scripts that I have to do on occasion. If I write something
worthwhile I will be sure to put it on code.dlang.org and name it
Triple-D.
