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From: Ken Tilton on 10 Dec 2006 18:16 Rayiner Hashem has pronounced the license to be BSD and has turned over c-l.net project admin to David. Now is the time for all good Lispniks (well, one or two) to pitch in on finishing Verrazano. Even picking a new name. :) (Third time lucky?) The idea was to generate bindings for a new library with no more than this: (require 'asdf) (asdf:operate 'asdf:load-op 'verrazano) (verrazano:create-binding (verrazano:setup-build "gccxml" (make-pathname :device "/" :directory "/tmp")) "testsuite/opengl/opengl.binding" "testsuite/opengl/opengl-library.lisp" :cffi-backend) (quit) (defbinding "opengl-library" (nicknames "gl") (include "GL/gl.h" "GL/glu.h" "GL/glut.h")) Yummy, prospect, eh? ken -- Algebra: http://www.tilton-technology.com/LispNycAlgebra1.htm "Well, I've wrestled with reality for thirty-five years, Doctor, and I'm happy to state I finally won out over it." -- Elwood P. Dowd "I'll say I'm losing my grip, and it feels terrific." -- Smiling husband to scowling wife, New Yorker cartoon
From: Joel Wilsson on 13 Dec 2006 03:31 Ken Tilton wrote: > The idea was to generate bindings for a new library with no more than this: > [code snipped] > Yummy, prospect, eh? What's missing, and where would one start working?
From: Ken Tilton on 13 Dec 2006 12:18 Joel Wilsson wrote: > Ken Tilton wrote: > >>The idea was to generate bindings for a new library with no more than this: >>[code snipped] >>Yummy, prospect, eh? > > > What's missing,.. Not much. We reached Rayiner, he indicated: "The remaining issues for 1.0 are general bug-fixing and basic C ++ support for VC++, maybe some user-interface stuff. ". ie, to talk to a DLL built with VC++ we need some work. After 1.0 we just live with the beast and evolve it. There is always that question "Is that char* a c-string?" and "is this a secondary return value?". I have wondered if there is some way to leverage existing Swig definitions that reveal that stuff (as I understand it). If not, maybe we use Antlr and a good C/C++ recognizer to look inside the functions -- not something GCC_XML does, IIRC. > and where would one start working? > Ah, that is music to my ears. I think vzn is a big step up from swig: http://common-lisp.net/project/fetter/ Rayiner has handed off project admin to David Huebel but is staying involved and will help out. I guess what we really need is someone especially strong in C++, so this is a great chance for a Lisp noob/C++ wizard to walk straight into the Lisp hall of fame. ken -- Algebra: http://www.tilton-technology.com/LispNycAlgebra1.htm "Well, I've wrestled with reality for thirty-five years, Doctor, and I'm happy to state I finally won out over it." -- Elwood P. Dowd "I'll say I'm losing my grip, and it feels terrific." -- Smiling husband to scowling wife, New Yorker cartoon
From: D Herring on 13 Dec 2006 20:54 Ken Tilton wrote: > I guess what we really need is someone especially strong in C++, so this > is a great chance for a Lisp noob/C++ wizard to walk straight into the > Lisp hall of fame. For the less wizardly, I have uploaded a brief overview of the C++ side of things to http://androdna.com/basic_cpp_hack.zip I also have a very primitive CFFI binding to C++ (Qt4, incomplete, some glaring errors, only pops up a single dialog) at http://androdna.com/pubsvn/qt_lisp/trunk/ Now I'm gonna give Verrazano a whirl. - Daniel P.S. How does VZN compare to KDE's Smoke interface? http://developer.kde.org/language-bindings/smoke/index.html
From: C Y on 14 Dec 2006 08:41
D Herring wrote: > I also have a very primitive CFFI binding to C++ (Qt4, incomplete, some > glaring errors, only pops up a single dialog) at > http://androdna.com/pubsvn/qt_lisp/trunk/ I don't know if it's useful for this effort, but with respect to CFFI+QT4 there is also this: http://lisp-cffi-qt4.sourceforge.net/ > Now I'm gonna give Verrazano a whirl. Excellent news! |