I'll have to take a look at that. If it's cross platform, it could be a great resource.
-Charles On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 4:57 PM, Tomas Matousek < tomas.matou...@microsoft.com> wrote: > I would also recommend to look at Python’s c-types and especially > IronPython’s implementation: > > > > > http://github.com/ironruby/ironruby/tree/master/Languages/IronPython/IronPython.Modules/_ctypes/ > > > > Many of the features might be similar to Ruby’s FFI and it would be good to > share the implementation with IronPython when possible. > > > > Tomas > > > > *From:* ironruby-core-boun...@rubyforge.org [mailto: > ironruby-core-boun...@rubyforge.org] *On Behalf Of *Charles Strahan > *Sent:* Friday, August 20, 2010 2:35 PM > *To:* ironruby-core@rubyforge.org > *Subject:* Re: [Ironruby-core] IronRuby FFI > > > > That's something I'm curious about too. I don't know whether or not > P/Invoke alone can match the functionality of libffi. I'd have to look > through some of libffi and see if there's anything can't be accomplished in > C#. > > If everything can be accomplished in C#, I'd go that route. We could emit > types at runtime that have the necessary DLLImport attributes and such > (something I've already done for little projects of mine). > > -Charles > > On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 4:14 PM, Will Green <w...@hotgazpacho.org> wrote: > > Couldn't this be implemented via P/Invoke? Would P/Invoke work without the > attributes required in C#? > > > > -- > Will Green > http://hotgazpacho.org/ > > On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 4:49 PM, Charles Strahan < > charles.c.stra...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Ryan, > > I'm right there with you, only I looked at JFFI for inspiration (didn't > know mono had anything - could you share more about that?). In fact, In my > infinite laziness, I posted a job for a couple hundred bucks on > Rent-A-Coder, hoping someone could essentially port JFFI to C#, so I could > focus on writing the actually IronRuby library... but nothing came of that. > > I'm tempted to suck it up and start coding this myself. Would you be > interested in working together? I figured I'd take the approach of > essentially writing "NFFI", and then write an IronRuby lib around that. > > -Charles > > On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 2:33 PM, Ryan Riley <ryan.ri...@panesofglass.org> > wrote: > > I know that we've discussed this in the past, but I'm interested in > doing it for two reasons: > > 1. We use mono with a bridge to ObjectiveC and Cocoa, and we'd like to > investigate libffi via mono as a potential replacement for our current > bridge. > > 2. I'm interested just for the sake of learning more about FFI. > > > > Mono appears to have had a libffi implementation that was later removed, so > I think I have a place to start. However, I'm not sure that's the right > starting point. Does anyone have a suggestion for how to get started? I've > been taking a look at libffi and DllImport, but I'm not sure if those are > the right directions, something else, or what. > > > > Thanks, > > > Ryan Riley > > Email: ryan.ri...@panesofglass.org > LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/ryanriley > Twitter: @panesofglass > Blog: http://wizardsofsmart.net/ > Website: http://panesofglass.org/ > > _______________________________________________ > Ironruby-core mailing list > Ironruby-core@rubyforge.org > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/ironruby-core > > > > _______________________________________________ > Ironruby-core mailing list > Ironruby-core@rubyforge.org > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/ironruby-core > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Ironruby-core mailing list > Ironruby-core@rubyforge.org > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/ironruby-core > > > > _______________________________________________ > Ironruby-core mailing list > Ironruby-core@rubyforge.org > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/ironruby-core > >
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