On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 4:48 PM, Matthew Talbert <[email protected]> wrote: >> 3) Help with the C# bindings for SWORD. I know some people have talked >> about them in the past, but I don't know what state they might be in. >> Since Pathway is written in C#, it would be a great help to anyone >> writing a SWORD export path if they could access the engine bindings >> directly through C# rather than having to dump to a file and somehow >> invoke a copy of the utilities. The people who are interested in >> using Pathway are incredibly illiterate when it comes to technology - >> most of them weren't even able to identify the differences between a >> smart phone and a "feature phone". So any export would need to write >> out an entire module, ready to be uploaded directly to a hosting >> location (or possibly a single ZIP archive which could be emailed to a >> technical member of SIL by the translator for hosting). Our SWIG >> bindings are OK and already in use for Python and Perl, and SWIG >> supports C#, so hopefully getting them working would not be a huge >> burden for someone. As the current pumpkin holder for SWIG I am >> willing to work with anyone who wants to tackle adding C# to the set. >> I don't work in C# at all, so I can't touch that myself. > > SWIG and C# are not fun....Python is the most well-supported language, > there are quite a few things used in SWORD that are not currently > supported with SWIG and C# (multimaps, for example). The other option > is to write a wrapper in managed C++, which I think would probably be > better (though I know little about it myself). Work has already been > done on that, though not by the most popular person around.... After > looking, it looks like very little has actually been done, but still > it's a proof of concept: > http://bibleworkplace.sourceforge.net/sword2netdoc/sword2net_8cpp_source.html
I believe Python is the only language that has a SWIG implementation of std_multimap. In order to get the Perl bindings up and running again I had to find a std_multimap.i file which is included in the source of SWORD now. Getting C# working would probably require a similar feat along with writing up any build/install scripts to actually create a DLL (or whatever the library style required for .NET is). --Greg _______________________________________________ sword-devel mailing list: [email protected] http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page
