On Thu, Mar 06, 2008 at 02:18:08AM +0000, Duncan Coutts wrote:
There are rather too many of these C libs that define their public interfaces as macros. I had to adjust the zlib binding the other day to allow it to compile without -fvia-C. It now implements a couple macros in the Haskell code. I hope zlib don't change their macro in the next version.
Yeah, I ran into the exact same issue with my curses binding. the solution was to use hsc2hs to create wrappers when needed. something like this: foreign import ccall "get_COLOR_PAIRS" colorPairsPtr :: Ptr CInt #def inline int * get_COLOR_PAIRS (void) {return &COLOR_PAIRS;} hsc2hs is needed anyway for portable C bindings so it isn't too onerous of a requirement. John -- John Meacham - ⑆repetae.net⑆john⑈