[racket] Problems wrapping the RabbitMQ C client library using the ffi

Hi Tony,

> On Sun, Aug 26, 2012 at 6:31 PM, Tony Garnock-Jones <tonyg at ccs.neu.edu>
wrote:
>
> Hi Juan,
>
> On 2012-08-26 1:10 PM, Juan Garcia wrote:
> > I'm having a problem wrapping the Rabbit MQ C client
> > library (https://github.com/alanxz/rabbitmq-c) using the ffi.  My
> > problem is with the amqp_queue_declare function. [...]
>
> While I don't immediately see the problem with your FFI interface to
> librabbitmq, I'd like to point out that it's a very low-level library,
> and so is quite difficult to use. If there's nothing AMQP-specific about
> your messaging needs, I recommend enabling the RabbitMQ STOMP
> server-side adapter and using (require (planet tonyg/stomp)).
>
> The main advantage is that the pure-Racket implementation of the client
> side of the protocol means no SIGSEGVs, no shared-library dependencies,
> and cross-platform support.
...

I like the look of your library, and I will be using it to interface
with RabbitMQ.

Having said that, I'd still like to know what I'm doing wrong with my
ffi-code.  I have a couple of libraries I still need to wrap to
complete my project.

Thanks for the reply.

Regards,
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