[racket] The Racket FFI is killing me, I am going insane

From: Danny Yoo (dyoo at hashcollision.org)
Date: Tue May 28 03:09:32 EDT 2013

On Monday, May 27, 2013, maxwell wrote:

> Hello Doctor Yoo,
>
> I am having serious problems with the Racket FFI. Apparently, to load a
> struct from a library, I have to know all of it's contents, and then define
> them in terms of their contents, until everything has been defined in terms
> of C primitives. Surely I am incorrect. Can you explain this to me? What do
> I do if the struct I need has 200 struct pointers in it, each of which
> points to 200 more, and so on, a couple of layers deep?
>
> I am sorry to bother you with this but I am going insane and I need to
> sleep, but this is keeping me up!
>
> - Maxwell
>


Hi Maxwell,

I'm forwarding this to the Racket-lang mailing list.  Typically, it is
better to ask communities for support rather than single people, to reduce
dependence on one point of failure.
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