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

(mailing list in CC, for the reasons Danny mentioned)

Searching PLaneT [1], I've just found Dave Herman's package which may be of
interest to you:
http://planet.racket-lang.org/display.ss?package=c.plt&owner=dherman

Never tried it, not sure it's what you want, but should be worth trying.
If you do try it, please report back!

Laurent

[1] http://planet.racket-lang.org/


On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 7:43 AM, maxwell <maxwell at partyvan.info> wrote:

> Is there no function similar to get-ffi-obj that allows you to just grab a
> struct from a library? It seems like a pretty integral feature, why can't
> such a function exist as part of the FFI?
>
>
> On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 12:31 AM, Laurent <laurent.orseau at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Most of the time, you won't need all the features of the struct.
>> For pointers you don't care about, you can simply use the generic
>> _pointer type, as long as you don't use the /types/ behind that pointer.
>> Note that you can still use the pointer itself though, e.g., to pass it
>> around functions.
>>
>> And if for some reason at some point in time you need the struct
>> definition of that pointer, you can "expand" the definitions of your struct
>> types a little.
>>
>> HTH
>> Laurent
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 9:09 AM, Danny Yoo <dyoo at hashcollision.org>wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 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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