The first draft is now available. See inline comments below about obtaining, and notes about changes since the previous announcement.
On Thu, 2005-12-22 at 01:12 -0600, Stephen Compall wrote: > I am writing a CFFI tutorial, to be integrated into the manual when it > is done if the maintainers will have it. You can get the first half or > so in Texinfo format if you so desire at > http://csserver.evansville.edu/~sc87/cffi/tutorial.texi . You can > integrate it into cffi-manual.texi for building (if you want to see TeX, > HTML, etc output) with a > > @include tutorial.texi > > For best results, put it where that comment about the manual needing a > tutorial is. If you want curl.h and easy.h to follow along, they are in > the same directory. Available at the same address. Differences in tutorial-r1-r2.diff; current (hopefully loadable) final source at tutorial-source.lisp. Stuff left out: > * define-foreign-type for bits to be LOGIORed, then using that to type > the input to curl_global_init. > > * Callbacks. This of course will be a :writefunction. > > * Some other stuff I can't remember right now. It depends on what I can > reasonably introduce in the context of the example I've chosen. > > I may also consider disjoining the TYPEs in the :curl-option definition. > After all, I'm breaking the abstraction, so I might as well make a > better one. Didn't do this. > There is a stray TODO, and I don't yet know how I'm going to type > curl_off_t portably. I will probably just remove :off-t for this > tutorial. Left off-t in there, but didn't use it. It's not very useful anyway, so hardly anyone would miss it. > Comments are of course welcome here, and especially on Freenode #lisp, > where I am S11001001. -- Stephen Compall http://scompall.nocandysw.com/blog
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