I remember discussing this a few times in earlier years. I'm not entirely
sure why none of us ever got around to implementing it for Squeak/Cuis,
but it still sounds like a good idea to me.

Dave

On Mon, Jun 22, 2020 at 08:24:15PM +0200, Jakob Reschke wrote:
> I would use it if it existed. Interfacing with C libraries should be
> easier. Marcel is currently improving the FFI, but a binding generator I
> have not seen to far.
> 
> 
> stephen at heaveneverywhere.com <stephen at heaveneverywhere.com> schrieb am Mo.,
> 22. Juni 2020, 19:13:
> 
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Does anyone else want (or miss) the Smalltalk SWIG interface?
> >
> > SWIG is a software development tool that connects libraries written in C
> > and C++ with high-level programming languages; see http://swig.org. It is
> > supported by most of the cerrent ???scripting??? languages.
> >
> > There???s code in the VisualWorks repo that???s really stale and relies on a
> > set of compiler extensions.  It worked great a few releases ago.
> >
> > It would be useful for a range of apps (like mine) to be able to call out
> > to C/C++ libraries via auto-generated OO APIs.
> >
> > stp
> >
> >
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