Re: ffi-helper: looking for C libraries to try

[Matt Wette]

> On Jul 14, 2017, at 9:35 PM, Matt Wette <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> 
>> On Jul 14, 2017, at 5:44 PM, Amirouche Boubekki <address@hidden> wrote:
>> 
>> On 2017-07-15 01:17, Matt Wette wrote:
>>>  I tried git2 but those headers are too
>>> broken.
>> 
>> What do you mean by "too broken"? Maybe it will be easier in the long run to 
>> maintain our own version of the headers than manually bind everything. Even 
>> if it requires to create a shim layer in scheme to have a proper set of 
>> bindings that schemer will enjoy. Also, git is a good candidate since there 
>> are some tests already in guile-git [1].
> 
> Maybe another bug in my CPP.  
> 
> (define-ffi-module (libgit2)
>  #:include '("git2.h")
>  #:inc-dirs '("/opt/local/include")
>  #:library '("git2")
>  )
> 
> mwette$ guild compile-ffi libgit2.ffi 
> (unknown):1: not found: “common.h"
> 

I claim libgit2 headers are broken.  The standard says, essentially, “how 
headers are located is implementation defined”.

The file …/include/git2.h states:
#include “git2/annotated_commit.h”
#include “git2/common.h”
…

But the file include/git2/annotated_commit.h states:
#include “common.h”

Note this is “common.h" not “git2/common.h” How does gcc find common.h?  
The directory include/git2 is not in the include path.  
These are the ugly, undocumented, non-standard items that scare me.