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

On 2014-01-30 12:01, Ömer Sinan Ağacan wrote:
> 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?

Yes, several:

- Ctypes   https://github.com/ocamllabs/ocaml-ctypes
- CamlIDL  http://forge.ocamlcore.org/projects/camlidl/
- SWIG     http://www.swig.org/

Enjoy,

- Xavier Leroy