[plt-scheme] missing gsl scientific libraries

From: Eli Barzilay (eli at barzilay.org)
Date: Tue Aug 19 04:11:18 EDT 2008

On Aug 19, Atmam Ta wrote:
> I heard that in the ocaml community people created software for
> automating c library interface creation - i.e. you plug in the .h
> header file(s) and after some parsing and code generation out comes
> the raw interface code (which usually needs human editing to work
> perfecty...). Has there been an example of that in plt-scheme?
> Perhaps the GSL library is large enough to worry about such
> automation...

This requires either parsing header files, or using a C compiler to do
it for you.  Also, if the header files are platform specific, then it
means that you won't want to just generate the Scheme code and use it,
but do that genaration automatically so it can be performed on every
platform.

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