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Subject: Re: [Caml-list] any automated FFI bindings generators?

On 2014-01-31 02:28, Francois Berenger wrote:
> On 01/30/2014 08:01 PM, Ömer Sinan Ağacan wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I want to be able to use some very big C libraries from OCaml and I
>> want to automate process of writing bindings as much as possible. 
>> What
>> are my options for this? Do we have any tools to generate bindings?
>
> I am not sure this is what you are looking for, but there is this in 
> OPAM:
>
> ctypes -- Combinators for binding to C libraries without writing any 
> C
>

just tried to use ctypes on an arm-linux system and it failed to 
compile ('[ERROR] "ctypes" is not available for your compiler or your 
OS.');
unfortunately I couldn't find anything regarding the supported 
architectures of ctypes -- any hints on where it works? Only x86/x64?

Regards
Markus

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