All, c2hs version 0.16.3 is out and is available from hackage http://hackage.haskell.org/package/c2hs What is c2hs ============ c2hs is an FFI preprocessor tool, a bit like hsc2hs, that helps with the development of Haskell bindings to C libraries. The major advantages of using c2hs compared to writing foreign imports by hand (or using hsc2hs) are: * Cross-language type safety: C functions are imported with the correct Haskell types. * Saves time: boilerplate marshaling code is generated. It works by extracting interface information from C header files and it generates Haskell code with foreign imports and marshalling. Changes in this release ======================= * In and out marshallers may now have arguments, rather than just being single function names. * Foreign function imports will now use stdcall if the C headers specify this calling convention. This will help with bindings to some C libraries on Windows. * New {# alignof #} hook, like the existing {# sizeof #} hook. This is useful for the alignment in Storable instances. * Fewer marshalling functions are needed from the bundled C2HS module. The trend is towards eliminating the need for any axillary marshalling module. Credits ======= Thanks to Jonathan Rockway, ron@gamr7.com and Dmitry Astapov for contributions to this release. Links ===== Home page: http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~chak/haskell/c2hs/ Bug tracker: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/c2hs/ Duncan