RE: [Caml-list] Confusion about camlidl capabilities? other tools?

["Jeff Henrikson" <jehenrik@yahoo.com>]

> I started working some time ago on c2caml, which, altough maybe not
> what you need, was intented to generate ocaml stubs from C header
> code, particularly for parsing the gtk+ headers and generating
> appropriate bndings. It is really jus ta C parser for now, but if
> you want, you can look at it, it is availabel in the CDK, i think.

No, wrong way.  I want to publish a control implemented in caml to the outside world.  Parsing C is not involved.  Printing a bunch
of C is.

Note that this is easier than the reverse: C header files are underspecified and need a markup language (MIDL, SWIG) to make stub
generation well defined.  mli files on the other hand have everything you need to interface to C or something else.


Jeff Henrikson

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sven [mailto:luther@dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr]
> Sent: Monday, August 13, 2001 4:53 PM
> To: Jeff Henrikson
> Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Confusion about camlidl capabilities? other
> tools?
>
>
> On Mon, Aug 13, 2001 at 03:26:46PM -0400, Jeff Henrikson wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Reading the documentation of camlidl, it says that caml objects can be exported for use in C/C++ programs.  Looking at
> the source
> > code, the support for this looks minimal.  I see the camlidldll script, which is just a shell script that links a caml
> program with
> > some executable code.  If this is some sort of automatic dispatch interface generator, this is not what I want.  I want real C
> > header files from just plain unannotated mli.  Preferably a system with ability to map variants into C struct/unions
> coupled with
> > utility functions.  I'm not sure which other advanced ocaml datatypes I need beyond variants and the basic ints,
> strings, arrays
> > and etc.
> >
> > Has anybody done something like this?  I ripped out the ocaml parser and started playing with it to build a tool, but
> I don't want
> > to be reinventing the wheel.  While I'm at it, I will probably try to export stubs at least these styles: COM,
> GTK-style C objects,
> > and SWIG-ready header files for inclusion in Python or TCL or whatever some unenlightened person would want to use.
>
> I started working some time ago on c2caml, which, altough maybe not what you
> need, was intented to generate ocaml stubs from C header code, particularly
> for parsing the gtk+ headers and generating appropriate bndings. It is really
> jus ta C parser for now, but if you want, you can look at it, it is availabel
> in the CDK, i think.
>
> Friendly,
>
> Sven Luther
>

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