From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id TAA00048; Thu, 8 Mar 2001 19:53:33 +0100 (MET) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f Received: from nez-perce.inria.fr (nez-perce.inria.fr [192.93.2.78]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id TAA00172 for ; Thu, 8 Mar 2001 19:53:32 +0100 (MET) Received: from stephens.ittc.ukans.edu (stephens.ittc.ukans.edu [129.237.125.220]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.10.0) with ESMTP id f28IrUD25478 for ; Thu, 8 Mar 2001 19:53:31 +0100 (MET) Received: from elroy.ittc.ukans.edu (elroy.ittc.ukans.edu [129.237.126.120]) by stephens.ittc.ukans.edu (8.11.2/8.11.2/ITTC-NOSPAM-NOVIRUS-2.2) with ESMTP id f28IrOL13011; Thu, 8 Mar 2001 12:53:24 -0600 Received: from localhost by elroy.ittc.ukans.edu (8.9.3/KU-4.0-client) id MAA19427; Thu, 8 Mar 2001 12:53:24 -0600 Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2001 12:53:24 -0600 (CST) From: Ravi Chamarty To: Jocelyn Serot cc: caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Caml Wrappers In-Reply-To: <15015.18070.504662.128258@mistral.univ-bpclermont.fr> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk Hi, Thanks for all the help. I looked up at both the CamlIDL and the dbm stuff . Both of them helped a lot. I even tried a few wrappers similar to the dbm library. However, since my C library is quite extensive, using CamlIDL seems to be a good idea. Can anyone please spare a few IDL samples to help me get a good idea of it. Thanks again for all the help Ravi On Thu, 8 Mar 2001, Jocelyn Serot wrote: > Ravi Chamarty writes: > > > > Hi , > > > > I am trying to write OCaml interfaces around a C library. I tried > > looking at the Unix library and trying to understand it. However, I have > > much complex data types to deal with.I was wondering if anyone could help > > me out. > > > > Here is a signature of one of the C functions: > > > > an_flow_t * > > an_flow_create(void *mem, an_cred_t *cred, an_cpuspec_t *cspec, > > an_memspec_t *mspec, an_flowinit_func_t init, > > void *initarg, an_flowterm_func_t term) > > > > > > Each of these types are complex structures in C. How do I represent these > > in OCaml. Is it useful to use classes and methods? Or do I use abstract > > types to represent them ? > > > > An example of one of these structures is given below: > > > > [...] > > I would be grateful for any help. > > > > Thanks > > Ravi > > > > Did you have a look a Camlidl (http://pauillac.inria.fr/caml/camlidl) ? > It can generate rather complex stub code for you. > > Jocelyn > > -- > E-mail: Jocelyn.Serot@l_a_s_m_e_a.u_n_i_v-bpclermont.fr ..................... > S-mail: LASMEA - UMR 6602 CNRS, Universite Blaise Pascal, 63177 Aubiere cedex > Tel: (33) 04 73.40.73.30 - Fax: (33) 04 73.40.72.62 ......................... > Valid e-mail: remove underscores (sorry, this is prevention against junk mail > ------------------- To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr. Archives: http://caml.inria.fr