Re: [Gcl-devel] C library support [ was Re: BLAS and GCL ]

[Dennis Decker Jensen]

On Tue Jun  8 20:41:24 2004 Dennis Decker Jensen wrote:

        Camm writes:
        > The biggest complaint about lisp is the (lack of)
        > library support, and the idea of reimplementing
        > everything in lisp appears to me to be a definite
        > non-starter.  Were such a modular approach to external
        > C libs attainable, one could dispense with separate
        > support for xgcl, pargcl, etc. and greatly simplify
        > future maintenance.

        That would really rock!!  I know ASDF-install is very
        dynamic, cool and useful, but having all C libs at
        your fingertips with more ease than anything else is
        not only cool, it is a killer feature.

I just stumbled upon http://www.cliki.net/cparse which is a
Lisp library for parsing C header files in the context of FFI.
It understands structs, unions, &c.  The Cliki page mentions
http://www.gccxml.org as well as nm.  It was made to be used
with UFFI (CMUCL), but it might not be difficult to modify or
get an general idea from.  The library was made by Tim Moore.
 
Ciao,

Dennis Decker Jensen