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Best way to interface with C/C++?

Hi, I am looking at manners to interface with C. At the moment I am using a simple label = function-name scheme, but I would like to automatically generate simple bindings.

I have looked at gccxml and swig, both seem to involve a lot of hacking. Is there anyone with any experience in this field who would like to share his/her experience?

Oh yeah, the language I am building is a simple statically typed ML variant with type constructor classes.

Thanks.

By marco at 2008-09-21 14:27 | LtU Forum | previous forum topic | next forum topic | other blogs | 4772 reads

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Reppy's work

is to be consulted:

http://people.cs.uchicago.edu/~jhr/papers/interop.html

By Gergely Buday at Mon, 2008-09-22 10:19 | login or register to post comments

Thanks

Thanks, great articles, they pointed me in the direction of the C->Haskell work. Maybe I'll go with that in the future. (I decided to stick with what I have now and see whether I can build a generator from .h files in the, I guess far, future.)

By marco at Mon, 2008-09-22 17:55 | login or register to post comments

Felix?

as seen (somewhat buried) previously on LtU. only note that (took me a while to realize) it is only compiled, there is no REPL tool. and i'm not sure what the debugging deal is. and i never quite got it really building and working for me on my machine, iirc.

By raould at Wed, 2008-09-24 23:30 | login or register to post comments

Inline C

One way is to allow inline C inside your language, which works most easily (only?) if your language compiles to C.

Alien Goo seems to be the most straightforward such system, other languages, such as Gambit-C have similar capabilities.

By Manuel J. Simoni at Thu, 2008-09-25 09:54 | login or register to post comments