Re: dynamic foreign function interface

2010-01-28 Thread Neil Jerram
Andy Wingo writes: > Wow, ok. Well yes, we did always think this was going to happen... so > all right. I'll see what it takes, and merge when ready. FWIW, I'm really pleased to see this so soon. I've been musing that an FFI should allow us to co-opt all the binding libraries out there for othe

Re: dynamic foreign function interface

2010-01-26 Thread Andy Wingo
Yellow, On Tue 26 Jan 2010 23:29, l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: >> By "dynamic", I mean that you don't have to write C and compile it; you >> can do everything at runtime from Scheme. You use dynamic-func and >> dynamic-link to get the raw function pointer, and make-foreign-function >> t

Re: dynamic foreign function interface

2010-01-26 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello! Andy Wingo writes: > I just finished up some work to make a dynamic foreign function > interface. This is on the wip-ffi branch. Nice! > By "dynamic", I mean that you don't have to write C and compile it; you > can do everything at runtime from Scheme. You use dynamic-func and > dynamic