Re: [Pharo-users] Binary (external) objects

2017-11-16 Thread Hans N Beck
Hi, thx for the hints :) But to be sure that we are talking about the same: the Foreign Mock-up Interface and FMU works like this: you have an SDK generating an interface description (the FMI) and an d some kind of binary object (the FMU). Any simulation tool supporting this standard can do

Re: [Pharo-users] Binary (external) objects

2017-11-16 Thread Ben Coman
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

Re: [Pharo-users] Binary (external) objects

2017-11-16 Thread Todd Blanchard
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 i