Newbie! How to use

[kylepritchard]

I am new to D and would like to convert an existing project which uses webview to D. I am wondering how to use this library, specifically linking. I have tried compiling webview to object file and linking but cannot get it to work. Do you have any basic guidelines?

[thechampagne]

In basic you can find working example that link to libweview.so.

[thechampagne]

If you want to link with object instead of library you need to place the object file in source directory and change

libs "webview"

to

sourceFiles "source/webview.o"
libs "stdc++" "gtk+-3.0" "webkit2gtk-4.0"

In dub.sdl.

[kylepritchard]

I managed to get it working just before your reply. Using windows PC so was able to include the library locally and link through dub.

I am struggling with binding functions to the webview instance. Do you have any examples of how that can be done?

[thechampagne]

Do you mean how to use this function ?

void bind(string name, BindCallback fn, void* arg);

[kylepritchard]

Yes, i cant ever seem to get the signature of the function correct and I believe a context is required whilst program is running according to webview docs

[thechampagne]

extern(C) void callBack(string seq, string req, void* arg)
{
 // code
}

w.bind("name", &callBack, null);

[gitgit3]

I didn't find this thread until after I got webview working. I did things differently. After downloading the webview project, I ran the build.sh in webview/script. This built webview.o as well as libwebview.so in the webview/build/ directory.

Then, since I an using dub.json, I appended the following property which allows the linker to find the lib:
"libs": ["$PACKAGE_DIR/libs/webview/build/library/libwebview.so"]

It seems like $PACKAGE_DIR is your project root where the dub.json file is located.

Hope that helps someone!