[Help-smalltalk] Re: using swig to generate bindings: was Re: Re: freeglut and opengl bindings

[Brad Watson]

Paolo,

I see this as a learning opportunity: I'll have a go at converting the swig 
clisp module (clisp.cxx etc) to a gst module to get a feel for the level of 
difficulty (c++ is foreign to me,) and see how I do. If it turns out not to be 
beyond me, then I'll have a go a more complete wrapper module based on pythons 
or whatever seems most appropriate (that is unless someone else is already 
working this.)

Kind regards,

Brad Watson

----- Original Message ----
From: Paolo Bonzini <address@hidden>
To: Brad Watson <address@hidden>
Cc: address@hidden
Sent: Monday, November 27, 2006 7:03:35 AM
Subject: Re: using swig to generate bindings: was Re: Re:   freeglut and opengl 
bindings

Brad Watson wrote:
> Here's a thought: leverage the excellent work already done for the swig clisp 
> bindings:

The idea overall is good.  The problem is that CLISP's C binding is way 
more powerful.  In particular, GNU Smalltalk has no support for enums 
and variables.

Also, more work (or a wrapper layer, that SWIG is very good at emitting) 
would be necessary to support things such as passing structures by value.

Paolo





 
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