17 Nov
2005
17 Nov
'05
5:44 a.m.
On Thu, Nov 17, 2005 at 12:30:48AM +0000, Neil Mitchell wrote:
FFI stubs are generated and compiled by ffihugs. I'm guessing that Neil hasn't worried about hooking in ffihugs because the old winhugs predates ffihugs, and batch compilation doesn't fit very well with the interactive environment.
I don't use FFI, so i haven't really looked at it at all. Having said that, some examples such as the Win32 examples I think use FFI, and they work fine - although I have no idea what they are actually doing beneath the surface.
When (Win)Hugs loads a module that uses the FFI, it also loads a corresponding .dll file that was previously created by processing the module with ffihugs. So interactive development of modules using FFI is problematic.