This is awesome. I would love to take a look at what you did and how you did it. Once 0.5 is released I think Julia would be in a mature enough state to promote it to the IDL community. Unless I am mistaken I do not think there are many major breaking changes that are planned.
-Luke On Friday, August 5, 2016 at 10:19:16 AM UTC-7, Bob Nnamtrop wrote: > > I have written a (pretty) complete wrapper for IDL (years ago actually), > but have not uploaded to github. I'll try to do that this weekend (and put > an update here). I wrote it for my own use and have been waiting for Julia > to mature to promote it to the IDL community. I originally wrote it for > Callable IDL and later switched to IDL RPC because of some library > conflicts I ran into using Callable IDL. It should not be hard to make the > Callable part work again. Of course, if you are on windows only Callable > IDL is supported by IDL, unfortunately. I have also implemented a REPL > interface to IDL from julia, which is really nice in practice. I originally > implemented the REPL in Julia 0.3 which was rather difficult, but it is > easy in 0.4. Note also that my package does not use Clang.jl but instead > hand written wrappers. This is no problem for IDL since the c interface to > IDL is very limited (basically you can pass in variables and call IDL > commands from strings; that is about it). It would be awesome if IDL would > expose more of the c interface like they did in the python library they > provide in recent versions. Maybe if julia picks up traction they will do > this. > > Bob > > On Thu, Aug 4, 2016 at 12:14 PM, Luke Stagner <lstag...@gmail.com > <javascript:>> wrote: > >> Its possible to call IDL from C code (Callable IDL) >> <http://www.harrisgeospatial.com/docs/callableidl.html> so I figured I >> could do the same from Julia. >> >> I have been trying to use Clang.jl to automatically create the wrapper >> but I am running into some issues. >> >> This project is a bit above my level of expertise and I would appreciate >> any help >> >> My current progress can be found at >> https://github.com/lstagner/JulianInsurgence >> >> and the output from my wrapper attempt (wrap_idl.jl >> <https://github.com/lstagner/JulianInsurgence/blob/master/wrap_idl.jl>) >> is located here >> <https://github.com/lstagner/JulianInsurgence/blob/master/output.txt> >> >> I am using current Clang.jl master and Julia >> julia> versioninfo() >> Julia Version 0.5.0-rc0+193 >> Commit ff1b65c* (2016-08-04 04:14 UTC) >> Platform Info: >> System: Linux (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) >> CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2680 v3 @ 2.50GHz >> WORD_SIZE: 64 >> BLAS: libmkl_rt >> LAPACK: libmkl_rt >> LIBM: libopenlibm >> LLVM: libLLVM-3.7.1 (ORCJIT, haswell) >> >> >> >> >
