[plt-scheme] C++ Bindings using FFI

Callbacks, memory management differences. It's less easy then you think 
at first.

Paulo J. Matos schreef:
> On 06/05/06, Hans Oesterholt-Dijkema <hdnews at gawab.com> wrote:
>>
>> >> 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.
>> >
>> SWIG is a parser and a generator. The current generator generates C glue
>> code. Instead of generating C glue code, FFI (i.e. scheme) glue code 
>> could
>> be generated.
>>
>
> Can't understand why not use FFI and dump Swig? Seems cleaner to me
> and GTK+  is C, no doesn't seem to be a problem.
>
>> Best regards,
>>
>> Hans
>>
>>
>
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