Matt Wette <matt.we...@gmail.com> writes: > I finally got my Wayland demo in guile working. I thought I'd share > some bits. > (I started with creating FFI to libwayland, but with all the callbacks > it was > not worth it.) > > Wayland is a display server for Linux (and others?), meant to replace X11. > It uses UNIX socket I/O between the "compositor" (i.e., server) and clients. > I have written a client app without using libwayland: I've coded down > to the > socket protocol in Guile Scheme. > > Summary: > 1) I created sendmsg/recvmsg! wrappers for Guile, in C. This allows me > to send file descriptors as shared buffer references to the server. > 2) I am using my proposed mmap wrapper for Guile, in C, to create a file- > mapped shared drawing. > 3) I created a "scanner" program in Guile that converts protocol specs > (e.g., wayland.xml) to scheme. > 4) I created "sender", "receiver" and "monitor" tasks within Fibers to > run the client app > 5) I used my ffi-helper generated code to use cairo for drawing. > > prototype code is located at https://github.com/mwette/guile-wl-play
Cool, I will definitely play/learn with it, thank you for sharing!
