[plt-scheme] C++ Bindings using FFI

See attached SWIG setup code for mzgtk2.



Paulo J. Matos schreef:
> On 06/05/06, Hans Oesterholt-Dijkema <hdnews at gawab.com> wrote:
>> SWIG can do C++ indeed. In my opinion a combination of SWIG
>> and the FFI should be made. I'd use the strengths of both; using
>> SWIG to generate FFI code from C(++) header files.
>>
>
> I don't really know about swig, still it is probably possible to
> create some C interface and then use FFI to contact with it. About
> communication between C/C++, I'll check that out! :)
>
> Quite interested to know more about that. I'll do some tests and post
> here afterwards.
>
>> A combination of a CASE tool like SWIG and a good foreign
>> interface in PLT scheme could releave programmers of of a great
>> deal of the the burden hand coding scheme bindings.
>>
>
> Don't understand how to use both if like Eli said, they both seem to
> do the same.
>
>> Best wishes,
>>
>> Hans
>>
>>
>>
>> Eli Barzilay schreef:
>> > On May  6, Hans Oesterholt-Dijkema wrote:
>> >
>> >> Maybe a combination of SWIG and the FFI can be used.
>> >>
>> >
>> > I don't know if SWIG can handle C++, but in any case, mixing SWIG and
>> > the Scheme foreign interface is not a good idea since both do the same
>> > thing.  To interface with C++ in an easy way through the Scheme
>> > interface, it may be possible to write a C interface layer, and use
>> > that from Scheme -- but it might be limited in the same way that C is
>> > limited in talking to C++.
>> >
>>
>>
>
>
> -- 
> Paulo Jorge Matos - pocm at sat inesc-id pt
> Web: http://sat.inesc-id.pt/~pocm
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>
>

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