I've not heard of any of those. I started looking at ctypes but never got far.
Sent from my iPhone On Oct 3, 2010, at 9:27 PM, Charles Strahan <charles.c.stra...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm also taking a look at IronPython's CTypes implementation, under Tomas' > advice. I've noticed that their MemoryHolder class derives from > CriticalFinalizerObject, which led me to the discovery of Constrained > Execution Regions. > > I sent an inquiry to the IronPython mailing list regarding the use CFO, and > about CER in general, as I haven't had any exposure to either, and the MSDN > docs are a little daunting. If anyone here would like to give an explanation > of either one, that would be awesome. > > Any experience with either of those, Ryan? > > -Charles > > > On Sun, Oct 3, 2010 at 10:39 PM, Ryan Riley <ryan.ri...@panesofglass.org> > wrote: > Sounds good to me! > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Oct 3, 2010, at 8:04 PM, Charles Strahan <charles.c.stra...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Ryan, >> >> Sorry for the long delay - I meant to give it some thought before I got back >> to you... and know it's been quite some time. >> >> I think it would be a good idea to replicate JFFI, using P/Invoke directly, >> if possible (as opposed to P/Invoking libffi). That would give us a good >> separation of concerns and a reusable library, and possibly an easy way to >> port any Java/JRuby code that uses JFFI to C#/.NET too. >> >> I'm about to set up an NFFI repo at http://github.com/cstrahan/nffi. - I >> suppose you could fork it and send me pull requests (unless you have a >> better workflow in mind - I'm definitely not a git guru). I've been learning >> C/C++ the last couple months, so I should be able to write simple DLL to run >> our tests against. I think I'll take a TDD approach to driving out the C# >> lib. Once we have NFFI working, it should be relatively straightforward to >> expose that to the IronRuby runtime. I'll try to get something pushed out to >> my repo by the end of tomorrow - I'll keep you in the loop. >> >> That's what I have in mind, but I'm open to suggestions. >> >> -Charles >> >> >> >> On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 9:23 PM, Ryan Riley <ryan.ri...@panesofglass.org> >> wrote: >> Charles, I'm happy to work with you to get this done. I'm getting close to >> finishing some projects and will have more time to work on it in a few >> weeks. I will send the info I got from the mono-devel list. Where/how do you >> want to start? >> >> Ryan >> >> 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 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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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