Hi

There is project TalkFFI <https://github.com/estebanlm/TalkFFI> from
Ciprian Teodorov.

2018-04-12 22:50 GMT+02:00 Bert Freudenberg <bert at freudenbergs.de>:

> On 12 April 2018 at 22:34, Nicolas Cellier <nicolas.cellier.aka.nice@
> gmail.com> wrote:
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>> There are at least two problems:
>> - documentation (lack of)
>> - limitations (unions, pointer on pointer on ...)
>> - automation (I said at least two, not at most)
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>> For the first problem, I opened the SO issues. Not ideal, but it's a
>> start.
>> For the second, I'll see if I can do something...
>> For the third, I did import some .h header with VW DLLCC, and I'm in the
>> process of translating to other dialects.
>> It's easier because Smalltalk syntax is order of magnitudes smaller than
>> C syntax.
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> ​I always thought it should be fairly straightforward to make a FFI
> bindings generator using SWIG (http://www.swig.org/).
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> SWIG parses C headers and outputs XML. Starting from that XML should be
> way easier than trying to parse C ourselves.
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> ​- Bert -​
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