From: Richard Jones <rich@annexia.org>
To: Erik de Castro Lopo <mle+ocaml@mega-nerd.com>
Cc: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Creating wrappers for C libraries
Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2006 11:41:24 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061208114124.GA26045@furbychan.cocan.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061208155437.7ed85c4f.mle+ocaml@mega-nerd.com>
On Fri, Dec 08, 2006 at 03:54:37PM +1100, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:
> I've had a look at chapter 12 of the O'Rielly book as well as the
> wrapper for ocaml-fftw3 and cairo-ocaml and it all seems a little
> daunting.
>
> I was wondering if there was any semi-automated too for creating
> Ocaml bindings for C libraries.
Obviously there are some semi-automated ways, such as SWIG and camlidl
mentioned already. But I would definitely urge you to look at doing
the wrapping by hand. It's really not that hard, although you should
pay careful attention to ch18 of the manual.
Rich.
ch18: http://caml.inria.fr/pub/docs/manual-ocaml/manual032.html
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-12-08 11:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-12-08 4:54 Erik de Castro Lopo
2006-12-08 6:36 ` [Caml-list] " Chris King
2006-12-08 6:45 ` Sébastien Hinderer
2006-12-08 7:08 ` [Caml-list] " Jon Harrop
2006-12-08 10:18 ` David Baelde
2006-12-08 11:08 ` Sébastien Hinderer
2006-12-08 11:41 ` Richard Jones [this message]
2006-12-08 12:00 ` [Caml-list] " Daniel Bünzli
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