[M3devel] m3gap.... it's an alignment issue

[Jay K]

Look at what others do?
 
Heck there is a C# binding. You can compile that
and reflect over its metadata.. should be able
to spit back out the original C headers?
 
 
Just Bing for "automate gtk binding"?
 
http://pwet.fr/man/linux/commandes/generate2
http://gtk2-perl.sourceforge.net/doc/binding_howto.pod.html#autogeneration
 
etc.
 
Someone should make an interface language, that everyone
actually uses!
 
 - Jay



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> From: dragisha at m3w.org
> To: jay.krell at cornell.edu
> Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2010 01:50:43 +0200
> CC: m3devel at elegosoft.com
> Subject: Re: [M3devel] m3gap.... it's an alignment issue
>
> Eliminating key phrase being "out own C"...
>
> I understand your approach here, and it's all OK - except it means ultra
> extra work for large APIs like Gtk+ I am working with/on. To accomplish
> things in our lifetimes, we have to automate things. It all boils down
> to "parse .h somehow, and then manipulate AST's to produce pieces of C
> and pieces of Modula-3".
>
> Looks a lot what SWIG does already, and I think it's nice place to
> start. Get what they already learned from .h's and produce better
> interfacing libraries. More concise and readable, at least.
>
> On Sat, 2010-10-09 at 21:53 +0000, Jay K wrote:
> >
> > Note this isn't with "underlying C", but with our own C.
> --
> Dragiša Durić 
>