win32metadata

[uligerhardt 18]

https://blogs.windows.com/windowsdeveloper/2021/01/21/making-win32-apis-more-accessible-to-more-languages/

 

Sounds very interesting.

Edited January 21, 2021 by uligerhardt

[Angus Robertson 574]

Indeed, lets hope Embarcadero uses it to bring some long neglected RTL files up to date.

 

Also OpenSSL, but dare not ask them anything new, so far behind on 3.0.

 

Angus

 

[Anders Melander 1782]

Isn't this just something that read metadata from WinMD and write wrappers? You can do that already so I guess the news is that they're generating WinMD from the SDK headers.

 

[Anders Melander 1782]

Edit post seems to be broken so here's the link on how to read from WinMD: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/54375771/how-to-read-a-winmd-winrt-metadata-file

[Guest]

Edit post ---> passed some time later it's not possible re-edit it!

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Edited January 22, 2021 by Guest

[uligerhardt 18]

6 hours ago, Anders Melander said:

Isn't this just something that read metadata from WinMD and write wrappers? You can do that already so I guess the news is that they're generating WinMD from the SDK headers.

 

This is about generating wrappers for classic Win32 API, Not some WinRT stuff. Autogenerate Windows.pas! 😎

[Anders Melander 1782]

49 minutes ago, uligerhardt said:

This is about generating wrappers for classic Win32 API, Not some WinRT stuff. Autogenerate Windows.pas! 😎

Yes, that's what I wrote.

However the metadata comes from WinMD, which is also used by WinRT:

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The output of this project is effectively an ECMA-335 compliant Windows metadata file (winmd) published to Nuget.org containing metadata describing the entire Win32 API surface.

 

[uligerhardt 18]

24 minutes ago, Anders Melander said:

Yes, that's what I wrote.

However the metadata comes from WinMD, which is also used by WinRT:

 

Ok, then I misunderstood you. 😎

[David Heffernan 2345]

Modern C++ projection would be wondrous. Get rid of all those macros!