Is there a SWIG module for Squeak?
Andreas Raab
Andreas.Raab at gmx.de
Fri Sep 7 19:25:20 UTC 2001
<apicall:> is in fact platform specific - but you don't have to use it.
Cheers,
- Andreas
> -----Original Message-----
> From: squeak-dev-admin at lists.squeakfoundation.org
> [mailto:squeak-dev-admin at lists.squeakfoundation.org]On Behalf
> Of Douglas Brebner
> Sent: Friday, September 07, 2001 10:17 AM
> To: squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org
> Subject: Re: Is there a SWIG module for Squeak?
>
>
> On Friday 07 September 2001 04:15, you wrote:
> > Douglas,
> >
> > > FFI isn't cross platform either which makes for more work
> > > wrapping it.
> >
> > What exactly do you mean this?! The FFI is perfectly
> cross-platform as long
> > as some naming conventions are kept. And that's true for pluggable
> > primitives as well. E.g., if you name some plugin "foo" on
> one platform and
> > "bar" on another one you shouldn't expect things to work
> that smoothly ;-)
>
> I was referring to the way that the unix FFI calls use
> <cdecl:module:> while
> the mac and windows calls use <apicall:module:>. I thought
> this meant that
> cross platform modules would need to know what platform
> they're running on to
> select the right call type. Sorry if I misinterpreted it, I'm
> not very
> familiar with how the FFI works.
>
> --
> Douglas
>
>
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