[racket] Bootstrapping an FFI

Hi Ian,

unfortunately I can't help you with automatic code generation but i've 
written a binding for libSDL (and libSDL_image) manually. It's not 
complete but covers quite a usable part of SDL (video, events, joystick 
and some more). If it helps you in any way, feel free to use / fork the 
code. It's on github:

https://github.com/pb82/sdl4racket

On 11.08.2012 04:43, Ian Tegebo wrote:
> I'm playing around with an FFI for SDL.  Rather than slog through all
> the headers by hand, I went looking for some code that may do a bit of
> the parsing and translation.  On PLaneT, I found dherman's c.plt:
>
> http://planet.racket-lang.org/display.ss?package=c.plt&owner=dherman
>
> I got stuck when it appeared that I'd need to provide it with a list
> of symbols that were typedef-ed:
>
> http://planet.racket-lang.org/package-source/dherman/c.plt/4/0/planet-docs/c/parsing.html#(part._include)
>
> I bit of preprocessing seems to make this still quite a bit of work:
>
> gcc  -D "__extension__=" -D "__attribute__(ARGS)=" -E
> /usr/include/SDL/SDL.h  | sed '/^\#/d' | indent -st -i2 |grep -vE
> '^[[:space:]]*$' > sdl.h
>
> Has anyone else gone down this road before?  Also, Besides Eli's
> paper, any general advice for Racket FFIs?
>
> Thanks,