Last update August 1, 2012

CLibrary Bindings

This is a list of bindings to C libraries. For some libraries there are bindings from the Deimos project, which attempt a direct port of the C headers with no overhead or D-ification, for others there are D wrappers that make use of the language's features. Individual licenses of the original libraries apply. See their websites for more information.

Table of contents of this page

Drawing / Images

Multimedia

Database

GUI / User Interaction / Desktop Environment

Physics / Simulation / Math

System Administration

Scripting / Refactoring / Compilers

Compression / Encryption

Software Infrastructure / Networking

Note: Feel free to edit this page.

Drawing / Images

Library	Description	C Binding	D Wrapper	D Native Reimplementation
cairo http://www.cairographics.org/	Cairo is a 2D graphics library with support for multiple output devices.	Deimos:cairo
libexif http://libexif.sourceforge.net/	reads and writes EXIF metainformation from and to image files.	Deimos:libexif

Multimedia

Library	Description	C Binding	D Wrapper	D Native Reimplementation
libsndfile http://www.mega-nerd.com/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.	Deimos:libsndfile
MediaInfo http://mediainfo.sourceforge.net/	MediaInfo? is a convenient unified display of the most relevant technical and tag data for video and audio files.	Deimos:libmediainfo
OpenGL http://www.opengl.org/	The Industry's Foundation for High Performance Graphics	DsourceProject:derelict	GH:p0nce/gfm/tree/master/opengl GH:Dav1dde/glamour
PortAudio http://www.portaudio.com/	PortAudio is a free, cross-platform, open-source, audio I/O library. It provides a very simple API for recording and/or playing sound using a simple callback function or a blocking read/write interface.	Deimos:portaudio
SDL http://www.libsdl.org/	Simple DirectMedia? Layer is a cross-platform multimedia library designed to provide low level access to audio, keyboard, mouse, joystick, 3D hardware via OpenGL, and 2D video framebuffer.	DsourceProject:derelict

Database

(Take a look at the dedicated page here: DatabaseBindings)

GUI / User Interaction / Desktop Environment

Library	Description	C Binding	D Wrapper	D Native Reimplementation
libnotify http://developer.gnome.org/libnotify/	libnotify is a library that sends desktop notifications to a notification daemon, as defined in the Desktop Notifications spec. These notifications can be used to inform the user about an event or display some form of information without getting in the user's way.	Deimos:libnotify	GH:Dav1dde/dnotify
libX11 http://www.x.org/wiki/	Core X11 protocol client library	Deimos:libX11
ncurses http://www.gnu.org/software/ncurses/	The Ncurses (new curses) library is a free software emulation of curses in System V Release 4.0, and more.	Deimos:ncurses

Physics / Simulation / Math

Library	Description	C Binding	D Wrapper	D Native Reimplementation
ODE http://www.ode.org/	ODE is an open source, high performance library for simulating rigid body dynamics.	Deimos:ODE

System Administration

Library	Description	C Binding	D Wrapper	D Native Reimplementation
systemd http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd	systemd is a system and service manager for Linux, compatible with SysV and LSB init scripts.	Deimos:systemd

Scripting / Refactoring / Compilers

Library	Description	C Binding	D Wrapper	D Native Reimplementation
libclang http://clang.llvm.org/	C Interface to Clang, a C, C++, Objective C and Objective C++ front-end.	Deimos:libclang	GH:jacob-carlborg/dstep/tree/master/clang
Lua http://www.lua.org/	Lua is a powerful, fast, lightweight, embeddable scripting language.	GH:JakobOvrum/LuaD	GH:JakobOvrum/LuaD
OpenCL http://www.khronos.org/opencl/	OpenCL� is the first open, royalty-free standard for cross-platform, parallel programming of modern processors found in personal computers, servers and handheld/embedded devices.		GH:Trass3r/cl4d
Ruby http://www.ruby-lang.org/	A dynamic, open source programming language with a focus on simplicity and productivity. It has an elegant syntax that is natural to read and easy to write.	Deimos:libruby	GH:jacob-carlborg/orbit/tree/d2/ruby

Compression / Encryption

Library	Description	C Binding	D Wrapper	D Native Reimplementation
liblzma http://tukaani.org/xz/	XZ Utils is free general-purpose data compression software with high compression ratio. liblzma is a compression library with API similar to that of zlib.	Deimos:liblzma
OpenSSL http://www.openssl.org/	The OpenSSL Project is a collaborative effort to develop a robust, commercial-grade, full-featured, and Open Source toolkit implementing the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL v2/v3) and Transport Layer Security (TLS v1) protocols as well as a full-strength general purpose cryptography library.	Deimos:openssl

Software Infrastructure / Networking

Library	Description	C Binding	D Wrapper	D Native Reimplementation
FastCGI http://www.fastcgi.com/drupal/	FastCGI is a language independent, scalable, open extension to CGI that provides high performance without the limitations of server specific APIs.	Deimos:libfcgi
libev http://software.schmorp.de/pkg/libev.html	A full-featured and high-performance event loop that is loosely modelled after libevent, but without its limitations and bugs.	Deimos:libev
libevent http://libevent.org/	libevent is an asynchronous event notification software library.	Deimos:libevent
�MQ \zeromq\ http://www.zeromq.org/	The Intelligent Transport Layer	Deimos:ZeroMQ