Re: Easing language bindings (was Re: GtkPlot widget)

[bob cs csoft net]

I have used SWIG, and it is great. It should be able to wrap up widgets
very quicky to work on other languages.

On Sun, 28 Nov 1999, Yo Ric Dude wrote:

> 
> You may want to take a look at SWIG (www.swig.org or something)
> Software Wrapper Interface Generator, i believe.  It takes a 
> C language header file, and if needed, an interface definition
> file, and can generate Tcl, Perl, Python, and several other
> bindings through a wrapper interface.  Not sure how well the
> underlying code would deal with GUI elements, but there might
> be a decent amount a code available for reuse in there.
> 
> Havoc Pennington wrote:
> > 
> > On Sat, 27 Nov 1999, ERDI Gergo wrote:
> > > I think a more clean solution would be to use IDLs instead of native C
> > 
> > Which has Zero Concrete Benefits, makes the job of writing the language
> > binding generator 10 times harder, and probably won't get supported by the
> > GTK maintainers. Not a good idea if you want to actually get a working
> > tool in a reasonable timeframe.
> > 
> > C used consistently (as it almost always is in GTK) can work just fine as
> > an IDL. You probably need to maintain some special exception lists
> > (int/bool confusion, const gchar* vs. gchar* confusion, which struct
> > members to make public) but that should not be hard (and some such as
> > gint/gboolean can be fixed in the GTK sources themselves).
> > 
> > Havoc
> > 
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