From the mono-devel list: On Thu, 2010-08-19 at 10:35 -0700, Ryan Riley wrote: > Has anyone created or investigated Mono support for libffi?
Once upon a time, Mono used libffi directly. It was removed in r724 (git SHA1 ID d0cd6059c1b2edad12eb67cb8e64b3cd187be1b1) on 2001-09-05 (and earlier). Unfortunately, the commit message is useless, but iirc the reason for removing it was because it was significantly slower than what Mono could do itself. > I'd like to contribute this to help support Ruby-FFI for IronRuby. I imagine IronRuby doesn't require it's own FFI, it would just use the usual .NET FFI of DllImport, no? As for supporting Ruby-FFI, perhaps you can extend the existing Mono FFI support to support Ruby? I don't know what would be involved... - Jon Sent from my iPhone On Aug 20, 2010, at 1:49 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
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