Ditto here...

I had a simple class that used FFI to call some functions in an external
library.  For some reason, FFI no longer works for me on UNIX so I bought
the "NuBlue" book and read the chapter on making plugins...and it made my
head spin.  I'm sure I just need to re-read the chapter and look at some
working examples, but FFI is much simpler for 'quick and dirty' 
experimentation.  



On Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 02:41:42PM -0500, Stephen Pair wrote:
> I know...but I like the simplicity of FFI.  If you have a pre-compiled
> library (DLL) in hand, you can call it directly with FFI without needing
> to translate and compile anything.
> 
> - Stephen 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: squeak-dev-admin at lists.squeakfoundation.org 
> > [mailto:squeak-dev-admin at lists.squeakfoundation.org] On 
> > Behalf Of Tim Rowledge
> > Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2001 11:40 AM
> > To: squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org
> > Subject: RE: External Libs (was Re: libcurl?!)
> > 
> > 
> > "Stephen Pair" <spair at advantive.com> is widely believed to 
> > have written:
> > 
> > > I think this is a great idea.  It is really easy with FFI 
> > to interface 
> > > Squeak with external libs
> > As a general rule it will usually perform better if you write 
> > a plugin to interface to the external library. You get the 
> > chance to make a nice clean interface for the Squeak side, 
> > you can handle structures effectively etc etc.
> > 
> > tim
> > 
> > -- 
> > Tim Rowledge, tim at sumeru.stanford.edu, 
> > http://sumeru.stanford.edu/tim Useful > random insult:- Full of
> wisdumb.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 
>