using swig to generate bindings: was Re: Re: freeglut and opengl bindings

Paolo,

I see this as a learning opportunity: I'll have a go at
converting the swig clisp module (clisp.cxx etc) to a gst
module to get a feel for the level of difficulty (c++ is
foreign to me,) and see how I do. If it turns out not to be
beyond me, then I'll have a go a more complete wrapper
module based on pythons or whatever seems most appropriate
(that is unless someone else is already working this.)

Kind regards,

Brad Watson

----- Original Message ----
From: Paolo Bonzini <paolo.bonzinilu.unisi.ch>
To: Brad Watson <whitebearded1yahoo.com>
Cc: help-smalltalkgnu.org
Sent: Monday, November 27, 2006 7:03:35 AM
Subject: Re: using swig to generate bindings: was Re: Re:  
freeglut and opengl bindings

Brad Watson wrote:
> Here's a thought: leverage the excellent work already
done for the swig clisp bindings:

The idea overall is good.  The problem is that CLISP's C
binding is way 
more powerful.  In particular, GNU Smalltalk has no support
for enums 
and variables.

Also, more work (or a wrapper layer, that SWIG is very good
at emitting) 
would be necessary to support things such as passing
structures by value.

Paolo

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