Speaking of SWIG, take a look at ODLL.
Best Regards,
Byron Hasle
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>Hi list !
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>I'm please to announce the first release of ODLL.
>
>If you're having a boss asking you to write C librairies but if you prefer
>to write them in OCaml, this tool is for you ! ODLL is creating a Win32 DLL
>from an OCaml library, and automatically generating the C stubs needed to
>interface the OCaml code and the C code and the .H interface. Simply run
>ODLL with you CMA/CMXA and one or several CMI interfaces and ODLL
>will do the job for you.
>
>The distribution is available at http://tech.motion-twin.com
>Comments/suggestions are welcome,
>
>Thanks to Lexifi - member of the Ocaml consortium - for their support in
>this project.
>
>Nicolas Cannasse
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Are there any future plans to go with the SWIG group
http://www.swig.org/ for interfacing with C code? They claim to support
Perl, Python, Tcl/Tk, Ruby, Guile, MzScheme, Java, OCAML, CHICKEN, and
C#, and as I've understood, you just run something like "swig -python"
on your header file to create everything you need to interface C to Python.
At the moment, I'd like to generate Haskell access to all the functions
and enums defined in the Oracle database C library libsqlora8
http://www.poitschke.de/libsqlora8/.
Something like SWIG sounds ideal for that. C2hs looks good. But somehow,
if I do it in c2hs I have to read and understand all about the ffi,
stable pointers and foreign pointers etc. Is the problem just too
complicated in Haskell to automate completely?
Amanda
