From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.3 (2006-06-01) on yquem.inria.fr X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.0 required=5.0 tests=none autolearn=disabled version=3.1.3 X-Original-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Delivered-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Received: from concorde.inria.fr (concorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.39]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id CD75DBC0B for ; Fri, 8 Dec 2006 05:54:47 +0100 (CET) Received: from smtp.syd.people.net.au (smtp.syd.people.net.au [218.214.225.98]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.13.6/8.13.6) with SMTP id kB84siXT029691 for ; Fri, 8 Dec 2006 05:54:46 +0100 Received: (qmail 17175 invoked from network); 8 Dec 2006 04:54:52 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO coltrane.mega-nerd.net) (218.214.64.136) by smtp.syd.people.net.au with SMTP; 8 Dec 2006 04:54:52 -0000 Received: from coltrane (coltrane [192.168.1.101]) by coltrane.mega-nerd.net (Postfix) with SMTP id 9BAD97ADA for ; Fri, 8 Dec 2006 15:54:38 +1100 (EST) Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2006 15:54:37 +1100 From: Erik de Castro Lopo To: caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Creating wrappers for C libraries Message-Id: <20061208155437.7ed85c4f.mle+ocaml@mega-nerd.com> Organization: Erik Conspiracy Secret Labs X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.3.0beta3 (GTK+ 2.8.20; i486-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Miltered: at concorde with ID 4578F014.001 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail . ensmp . fr)! X-Spam: no; 0.00; ocaml:01 wrappers:01 ocaml:01 bindings:01 pointers:01 cheers:01 kernel:01 binary:01 data:02 data:02 parameters:02 seems:03 chapter:04 erik:04 erik:04 Hi all, 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. Any pointers appreciated. Cheers, Erik -- +-----------------------------------------------------------+ Erik de Castro Lopo +-----------------------------------------------------------+ "Lumping configuration data, security data, kernel tuning parameters, etc. into one monstrous fragile binary data structure is really dumb." - David F. Skoll