[squeak-dev] SqueakNim - an FFI glue code tool

Ron Teitelbaum ron at usmedrec.com
Tue Aug 18 15:23:45 UTC 2015


Hi All,

Quick question.  I would normally take a message like this and announce it on news.squeak.org and other places.  Since this release comes from 3D ICC I wanted to see first if anyone sees a conflict between my role as news team guy and my real job.  Would anyone object to my adding this announcement to news.squeak.org?  

Thanks!

All the best,

Ron Teitelbaum
Head Of Engineering
3D Immersive Collaboration Consulting
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: squeak-dev-bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org [mailto:squeak-dev-
> bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org] On Behalf Of Göran Krampe
> Sent: Tuesday, August 18, 2015 4:36 AM
> To: The general-purpose Squeak developers list; Pharo Development
> Subject: [squeak-dev] SqueakNim - an FFI glue code tool
> 
> Hi fellow Smalltalkers!
> 
> At 3DICC we are using Nim (http://nim-lang.org) to write our performance
> critical code that typically otherwise would have been written in C/C++.
> But now we have Nim :)
> 
> Nim can generate dlls/so libraries following C conventions so they can easily
> be called via FFI.
> 
> Andreas Rumpf (author of Nim who works with us) wrote a small utility
> called SqueakNim - its a set of Nim macros that generates the .st primitive
> calls based on the Nim code, so it takes out some grunt work and matches
> up types as far as it can. Simple, but very nice.
> 
> The docs etc are a bit unpolished, but the trivial example in "tests"
> has comments in it and it works in Squeak 5, Pharo 3, Pharo 4 and I guess in
> most versions of Squeak/Pharo.
> 
> Why would you be interested?
> 
> - Nim is great fun! C/C++ is torture. Same performance, nuff said.
> - Nim has a tool called c2nim that wraps C *and* C++ libraries.
> 
> That last part is a killer. We use c2nim to wrap Urho3D - a huge C++ game
> engine, works great, and that wrapper is also open source btw, Urhonimo.
> 
> How do I use it? See README at:
> 
> https://gitlab.3dicc.com/3dicc/squeaknim
> 
> For some more information my article (predating this tool) might have some
> details:
> 
> http://goran.krampe.se/2014/11/03/squeak-to-nim
> 
> ...and if you want to ask questions, hop onto freenode on either #squeak,
> #pharo or #nim. Me and Andreas are around.
> 
> regards, Göran




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