Re: Ann: Ada-Win32 bindings

[alby.gamper@gmail.com]

On Saturday, August 4, 2018 at 5:10:08 PM UTC+10, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
> On 2018-08-04 02:20, alby.gamper@gmail.com wrote:
> 
> > I am pleased to announce the initial release of ADA bindings for the Win32 API
> 
> Since Win32Ada is no more public that is a welcome substitute.
> 
> Alas, to late for me. I already migrated from Win32Ada to hand-written 
> small portions of Win32 API for the projects that used Win32Ada.
> 
> > Note: Their is still a bit of work to do in these bindings, specifically
> > 1) Callbacks / function profiles need to be addressed (currently mapped to System.Address)
> > 2) Handle inline functions ??
> > 3) Better handling of Pre-processor macros ??
> 
> Yes, some are missing, e.g. MAKELANGID.
> 
> 4. A- and W-forms should not be exposed, IMO. E.g. not 
> CreateFileMappingA and CreateFileMapping but two overloaded 
> CreateFileMapping.
> 
> 5. The stuff like LPCSTR should be handled more intelligently. I know it 
> is difficult, but input nul-terminated strings should also allow 
> char_array (or wide equivalent) argument instead of a raw pointer to char.
> 
> 6. NTSTATUS constants
> 
> 7. Some Ada convenience calls, e.g.
> 
> Conversions FILTETIME <-> Ada.Calendar.Time
> 
>     procedure Raise_From_LastError
>               (  ID     : Exception_ID;
>                  Prefix : String     := "";
>                  Error  : Error_Code := GetLastError
>               );
> 
> Conversions NTSTATUS <-> ERROR_CODE etc.
> 
> -- 
> Regards,
> Dmitry A. Kazakov
> http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de

Hi Dmitry

Thanks for your valued response, and I mostly agree with your points, and I will
try and address these points in future release's

Note some items may need to be Hand written, but point 6 and maybe 4 should be
very doable/straight forward. I'm thinking along the lines of using ANTLR to
parse the MACRO/PRE_PROCESSOR definitions/expansions ?

Alex