2008/12/4 jordi inglada <jordi.inglada at orfeo-toolbox.org>:
> Thank you all for the answers. I had a look at FANN and even asked the
> developer of the Squeak bindings, but, as far as I understand, it is not
> easy at all to proceed using FFI.
>
> Since I wanted to wrap a library containing several thousands of classes
> using advanced template features, I guess I will have to find another
> solution.
>

few years ago i used a modified SWIG to generate an Ogre3d bindings
(which is written in C++) for own smalltalk interpreter.
It would be good to have own parser in smalltalk, because SWIG is a hell.

> Regards,
>
> Jordi
>
> 2008/12/1 Joshua Gargus <schwa at fastmail.us>
>>
>> Unfortunately, here is currently no direct way to interface directly with
>> C++ code (only C code).  This is due to the lack of standardization of eg:
>> name-mangling between C++ compilers.  However, it is still possible to call
>> C++ code by wrapping the desired functions in C functions (or rather,
>> functions declared as 'extern "C" ').
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>> This should be enough documentation to get you started on the Squeak-to-C
>> part:
>> http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/370
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>> Cheers,
>> Josh
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>> jordi inglada wrote:
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>> Hi all,
>>
>> I am new to Squeak and I would like to know if there is a way to use an
>> external C++ API from it. I find the language and the environment very
>> interesting and I would like to benefit from some legacy code.
>>
>> I have been searching on the net for an equivalent of SWIG
>> <http://www.swig.org/> for Squeak without success.
>>
>> Thanks in advance for your help.
>>
>> Jordi.
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>> Jordi Inglada
>> http://pixel-remote-sensing.blogspot.com/
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