* Wrapping C++ in Ocaml?
@ 2007-01-02 10:32 Erik de Castro Lopo
2007-01-02 13:13 ` [Caml-list] " micha
2007-01-02 14:57 ` Dmitry Bely
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From: Erik de Castro Lopo @ 2007-01-02 10:32 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: caml-list
Hi all,
I have wrapped a C library for use with Ocaml and didn't find
the task too daunting. I have now found a C++ library that would
be useful, but the Ocaml ORA book makes no mention of wrapping
C++ libraries.
Has anyone got any experience wrapping C++ libraries in Ocaml?
Is it possible? Painful but doable? Too painful to think about?
Any pointers or advice appreciated.
Cheers,
Erik
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* Re: [Caml-list] Wrapping C++ in Ocaml?
2007-01-02 10:32 Wrapping C++ in Ocaml? Erik de Castro Lopo
@ 2007-01-02 13:13 ` micha
2007-01-02 14:57 ` Dmitry Bely
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From: micha @ 2007-01-02 13:13 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Erik de Castro Lopo; +Cc: caml-list
Erik de Castro Lopo schrieb:
> Hi all,
>
> I have wrapped a C library for use with Ocaml and didn't find
> the task too daunting. I have now found a C++ library that would
> be useful, but the Ocaml ORA book makes no mention of wrapping
> C++ libraries.
>
>
you can only wrapp via C - functions
> Has anyone got any experience wrapping C++ libraries in Ocaml?
> Is it possible? Painful but doable? Too painful to think about?
>
>
I have done it a few times, it's much typing :-)
you must write a c function for the methods of the class you want to
wrap and give them a pointer to the c++ class, so you can call the
method there. Often you define on the c++ side an adapter class which
delegates method calls to the ocaml side (f.e. when wrapping events from
and to c++/ocaml). For big libraries it's a neverending task without
more tools.
There is the platinum framework (on sourceforge), a c++ class lib with a
little gui. This lib compiles for win32, Linux, WinCE and qnx, I have
done some wrapping to the gui part, together with the event handling and
it works very nice (if you want to read it as an example).
> Any pointers or advice appreciated.
>
>
Python, Ruby and Perl all have wrappers for QT and they use tools to
generate the C interface I think. Maybe worth to look at...
cheers,
Michael
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* Re: [Caml-list] Wrapping C++ in Ocaml?
2007-01-02 10:32 Wrapping C++ in Ocaml? Erik de Castro Lopo
2007-01-02 13:13 ` [Caml-list] " micha
@ 2007-01-02 14:57 ` Dmitry Bely
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From: Dmitry Bely @ 2007-01-02 14:57 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: caml-list
On 1/2/07, Erik de Castro Lopo <mle+ocaml@mega-nerd.com> wrote:
> Has anyone got any experience wrapping C++ libraries in Ocaml?
> Is it possible? Painful but doable? Too painful to think about?
>
> Any pointers or advice appreciated.
Swig?
http://www.swig.org
- Dmitry Bely
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