Another effort leveraging FFI is CPPBridge... http://forum.world.st/ANN-CPPBridge-One-Ring-to-rule-them-ALL-td4922275.html#a4922298
and TalkFFI (this announcement for Pharo 4) http://forum.world.st/TalkFFI-automatic-FFI-generation-for-Pharo-td4662239.html cheers -ben On 17 November 2017 at 02:55, Todd Blanchard <tblanch...@mac.com> wrote: > UFFI (Universal Foreign Function Interface) is pretty good. > > It is how we access things like sqlite, cairo, and some other native > frameworks. There is work going on to make it more automatic by leveraging > libclang to parse headers and automate a lot of the grunt work. Search the > list for FFI in the subject lines and you will find some things. > > -Todd Blanchard > > On Nov 16, 2017, at 7:14 AM, Hans N Beck <hnb...@educational-concepts.biz> > wrote: > > Hi, > > is it possible - at least in theory - to build a VM such that Pharo could > handle binary objects ? For example, there may be objects written in C, in > Golang, Lisp... you could load the objects into to image, you would see > their methods as all other Smalltalk Code, with the difference that you > could not see the implementation or do Smalltalk level debugging. I have in > mind the FMI of Modelica (http://fmi-standard.org) > I don’t now if the modern FFI already works like this. And now, I don’t > reestablidvh CORBA :) > > Cheers > > Hans > > >
