On Fri, 2005-09-23 at 10:53 +0200, Sven Panne wrote:
In a nutshell: For a new "nice" OpenGL binding I would recommend that at least the token (un-)marshalers get generated semi-automatically (they are a lot of boring work with lots of possibilities for unrecognised typos), but the rest can be done by hand. For a plain 1:1 mapping of the C API, things can probably be automated almost completely via the Mesa XML description. So the choice is yours... :-)
Another possibility is to modify the GLEW (OpenGL Extension Wrangler, http://glew.sourceforge.net) source. As part of the build process, it downloads the OpenGL extension specifications (the .txt files) and parses them. It then calls several Perl scripts to convert the information into several target formats: C .h files, C .c "wrapper" files, HTML documentation, and .rc files (which seem to be Windows linker control files). It shouldn't be too hard to add OCaml as a target. Carl Witty