OpenGL Interface, FFI, C/C++ interface to Squeak
Pennell, David
DPennell at quallaby.com
Thu May 4 13:39:14 UTC 2000
>I've looked at your posts regarding FFI, and while I have no
>tutorial or particularlyilluminating written (textual) material
>to offer you, there is certainly one compelling (and large)
>example at: http://www.panda3d.org/ .
>
>At this URL, you will find a description of a particularly
>sophisticated 3-d engine that has been connected to Squeak
>(in this case referred to as Direct). This is for
>Unix/Linux systems and has an interesting (facilitated by
>FFI) connection to a C++ library (3-d engine). The connection
>through FFI has been considerably extended to support C++'s
>brand of object-orientation and data structures.
>
>Also in this package are tools that mechanically digest C++
>code and prepare a binding database which the (generalized,
>and not a normal part of FFI) Squeak C++ binding mechanism
>exploits to construct code that "talks" to the library.
Cool - are the FFI extensions useable separately from Panda?
Are they ready for prime time?
I don't see any docs at the URL you supplied and the ftp site
is currently timing out.
-david
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