Bindings

Binding is a procedure that converts header files, function prototypes, and variable declarations to from another language to D.

Projects

Projects and repositories for collecting / maintaining D bindings:

• Deimos
• DSource bindings project

Binding generators

Projects which automate generating D bindings:

C/C++ to D

	Title / Info	Description	License	Platform
	dstep	A tool for converting C and Objective-C headers to D modules	Boost Software License 1.0	Posix, Windows
	dpp	#include C headers in D code	Boost License 1.0.
	SWIG	Simplified Wrapper and Interface Generator
	cwrap (abandoned)	High-level wrapper generator	Boost License 1.0.
	htod	Migration tool to aid in converting C header files		Windows

Objective-C to D

• dstep

D to C/C++

• dtoh

Bindings

Web

	Title / Info	Description	License	Platform
	librdf/redland	Multiple language bindings for librdf (advanced RDF and SPARQL support)	multiple FOSS licenses	all

Compression & Encryption

	Title / Info	Description	License	Platform
	OpenSSL	D version of the C headers for openssl	MIT	Windows/POSIX
	liblzma	Interface to LZMA compression library		Windows/POSIX
	GNUTLS	Interface to GNUTLS library	LGPL

Multimedia & Games

	Title / Info	Description	License	Platform
	MediaInfo	MediaInfo supplies technical and tag information about your video or audio files.	GPL/LGPL	Windows
	libsndfile	Libsndfile is a C library for reading and writing files containing sampled sound (such as MS Windows WAV and the Apple/SGI AIFF format) through one standard library interface. It is released in source code format under the Gnu Lesser General Public License.	LGPL	Windows/POSIX
	Allegro	Allegro 4 and Allegro 5 are cross-platform, open source, game programming libraries, primarily for C and C++ developers.
	DerelictOrg	DerelictOrg is a collection of D bindings to C shared (dynamic) libraries which are useful for multimedia applications, with a heavy bias toward game development-related libraries. Bindings: ALURE ASSIMP DevIL FreeImage FreeType GLFW Lua ODE OpenAL OpenGL PhysicsFS SDL2 SFML2 Vorbis libogg libpq Older versions: Original DSource project Derelict 2 branch Derelict 3
	AntTweakBarD	AntTweakBarD is a binding to AntTweakBar which is a multi-render-engine (D3D/OpenGL) GUI tweaking library.	zlib/libpng

Source code translators

• cpp2d - C++ to D converter (included with Visual D)
• idl2d - IDL / C++ header file to D converter

See also

• D binding for C
• Binding generators

External links

• Article
• Series on creating bindings to C libraries for the D programming language.
• Interfacing to C (DLang page)
• DLang htod tool