[plt-scheme] missing gsl scientific libraries

On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 4:11 AM, Eli Barzilay <eli at barzilay.org> wrote:
> 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
>
> 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.

i'm curious... has anyone ever looked at doing a MzScheme SWIG backend
that emits CFFI code instead of creating C bindings? I've wondered if
this would be a feasible approach from time-to-time, but never really
investigated it.

Cheers,
Matt