[Vm-dev] [Vm-beginners] Stability of the external plugin interface

[Todd Blanchard]

I was hoping getting a solid libCLANG interface would make this easy.

But I haven't been able to get past a problem with some functions returning structs by value and the FFI failing to handle this.

Might be fixed now.  Worth a look.

> On May 25, 2020, at 1:50 PM, tim Rowledge <tim at rowledge.org> wrote:
> 
> VW has a parser of C header files that is I suppose the right way to do this sort of thing - you parse the headers (warning - I seem to recall parsing 'windows.h' taking several days in the original VW ddl product) and build proxies of all the types/structs/etc.  Is that a practical way to do it? Hell of a lot of work to do, certainly.

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