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Re: Functional Developer UNICODE support + source?
On Wed, 25 Jul 2001 17:44:55 +0100, Keith Playford
<keith.playford@pobox.com> wrote:
> I've never used it myself, but check out SWIG at http://www.swig.org/
>
> SWIG is an interface compiler that connects programs written in C,
> C++, and Objective-C with scripting languages including Perl,
> Python, and Tcl/Tk. It works by taking the declarations commonly
> found in C/C++ header files and using them to generate the glue code
> (wrappers) that scripting languages need to access the underlying
> C/C++ code.
>
> Someone would need to write a Dylan FFI back-end for it, however.
>
> Things like this usually work around the lack of a common C++ ABI by
> generating C trampoline functions and interfacing to those instead
> (one implication being that you need a C++ compiler to compile the
> glue).
Hi Keith,
I'm sure I've posted almost exactly this same SWIG reference before to this
list...
__Jason
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