I need to write a shim for the C++ API RtAudio, i.e. the class RtAudio
really. Your docs show how to write shims for C APIs (e.g. SDL), but not
C++ APIs:
http://kripken.github.io/emscripten-site/docs/porting/connecting_cpp_and_javascript/Interacting-with-code.html?highlight=webidl#implement-a-c-api-in-javascript.
No idea how embind/webidl-binder would fit into this scenario.

Anyhow, I wrote a (very) simple C wrapper for RtAudio, thus sidestepping
the C++ issue, so I can just write a C API shim. I try to implement a
single C function, rtaudio_initialize, in JavaScript, but it's not found by
the generated JavaScript (chuck.js). I can tell that the shim (or
JavaScript library) is used when building however, since I can have it
break the build by throwing an exception. Why is my JS implementation of
rtaudio_initialize not found??

My shim can be seen here:
https://github.com/aknuds1/chuck/blob/emscripten/src/emscripten/shims/rtaudio.js,
and it's incorporated in the build via the --js-library option to
emcc: --js-library emscripten/shims/rtaudio.js.

Thanks,
Arve

On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 11:31 AM, Alon Zakai <[email protected]> wrote:

> What do you mean by "shim a C++ API"? And in what way are embind and the
> webidl-binder not sufficient?
>
> - Alon
>
>
> On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 7:29 PM, Arve Knudsen <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> I can't see that those docs mention how to shim a C++ API in JavaScript?
>> There is a section on C API though, and how to integrate your shims, so
>> that's helpful at least. Is it simply not possible to shim a C++ API? If
>> so, I'll have to write a C wrapper instead I guess.
>>
>> Arve
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 11:17 AM, Alon Zakai <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> General docs on that are at
>>> http://kripken.github.io/emscripten-site/docs/porting/connecting_cpp_and_javascript/Interacting-with-code.html?highlight=webidl
>>>
>>> In particular if you are going to use C++ classes from JS, you probably
>>> want embind or webidl-binder.
>>>
>>> - Alon
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 7:02 PM, Arve Knudsen <[email protected]>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi guys
>>>>
>>>> As pertaining my previous more general question about writing
>>>> Emscripten shims, I have a more specific follow-up question. How can I
>>>> write an Emscripten shim library to mimic the RtAudio C++ class constructor
>>>> (
>>>> http://www.music.mcgill.ca/~gary/rtaudio/classRtAudio.html#afd0bfa26deae9804e18faff59d0273d9)?
>>>> And how do I integrate said shim into my build, so that invoking the
>>>> constructor works? The shim will eventually need to do more than just mimic
>>>> the constructor of course, but that would be a superb start.
>>>>
>>>> For context, what I'm trying to do is to port the ChucK music
>>>> programming language to JS, my GitHub project can be found here (branch
>>>> emscripten): https://github.com/aknuds1/chuck/tree/emscripten. The
>>>> README includes instructions on how to build with Emscripten.
>>>>
>>>> Let me know if you need to know more.
>>>>
>>>> Best,
>>>> Arve
>>>>
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