Wow, looks great! I'm still looking at FFIs for both Graphviz and a more recent version of OpenGL, so I'd appreciate anyone's tips/code for translating C.
On Sat, Aug 11, 2012 at 5:29 AM, Peter Braun <peter-br...@gmx.net> wrote: > Hi Ian, > > unfortunately I can't help you with automatic code generation but i've > written a binding for libSDL (and libSDL_image) manually. It's not complete > but covers quite a usable part of SDL (video, events, joystick and some > more). If it helps you in any way, feel free to use / fork the code. It's on > github: > > https://github.com/pb82/sdl4racket > > On 11.08.2012 04:43, Ian Tegebo wrote: >> >> I'm playing around with an FFI for SDL. Rather than slog through all >> the headers by hand, I went looking for some code that may do a bit of >> the parsing and translation. On PLaneT, I found dherman's c.plt: >> >> http://planet.racket-lang.org/display.ss?package=c.plt&owner=dherman >> >> I got stuck when it appeared that I'd need to provide it with a list >> of symbols that were typedef-ed: >> >> >> http://planet.racket-lang.org/package-source/dherman/c.plt/4/0/planet-docs/c/parsing.html#(part._include) >> >> I bit of preprocessing seems to make this still quite a bit of work: >> >> gcc -D "__extension__=" -D "__attribute__(ARGS)=" -E >> /usr/include/SDL/SDL.h | sed '/^\#/d' | indent -st -i2 |grep -vE >> '^[[:space:]]*$' > sdl.h >> >> Has anyone else gone down this road before? Also, Besides Eli's >> paper, any general advice for Racket FFIs? >> >> Thanks, > > > > ____________________ > Racket Users list: > http://lists.racket-lang.org/users -- Ian Tegebo ____________________ Racket Users list: http://lists.racket-lang.org/users
