Haxe

so because i'm building off of neko bindings it should be fairly easy to convert it to HL

> altho why is everything static
What do you mean?

in the neko bindings every function is static

https://github.com/waneck/systools/blob/master/project/src/api.cpp

The `static` keyword makes the functions "local" the current translation unit, meaning that they won't be publicly available to consumers of the ndll.
(Or to other translation units.)

No.
For hashlink those functions should actually be exported for HL/C to work.
(That's what the HL_PRIM is for.)

sorry for asking these questions i'm not a C expert

in the tutorial you wrote it said put _NO_ARG, is that only for the define_prim?
```
HL_PRIM void HL_NAME(init)(_NO_ARG)
{
    systools_misc_initialize();
}
DEFINE_PRIM(_VOID, init, _NO_ARG);
```

That's only for the DEFINE_PRIM.
For functions it's simply `foo();` (or `foo(void);` for prototype declarations.)

A prototype declaration like `int foo(void)` basically says "there exists a function somewhere that returns an int and takes no arguments".
One like `int foo(int, int);` says "there exists a function that returns an int, and takes two int arguments"

I believe there's a difference between `int foo(int,int)` and `int foo(int a, int b)`, but I'm not really familiar with those details of C.

i get to convert vstring* to const char* 😄 fun

oh so I actually have to read the source to find useful functions and not the wiki page labels "C API documentation"

i guess, i probably found that out by reading source

the main reason I can even start on it is that tutorial he wrote

i also only barely grasp C++ as a language 😅