Wow! This is embarrassing! I just noticed that the video on Vimeo is the wrong
one (no wonder you kept talking about a premature ending…)! I'm replacing it
right now.
Sorry for that.
Max
On 06.04.2013, at 23:38, Max Leske <maxle...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On 06.04.2013, at 23:09, Ciprian Teodorov <ciprian.teodo...@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Hi Max,
>>
>> your video is good, too bad that it stops prematurely.
>>
>> It helped me to spot a tiny issue with the libgit2 generation script. The C
>> compile options ( '-D__STDC_CONSTANT_MACROS' '-D__STDC_LIMIT_MACROS') that
>> are present there are just a copy paste error, since when created that
>> method I've modified the one I've used for generating llvm bindings (which
>> really needs them).
>>
>> For libgit2 i don't now, I think they aren't needed. I've just tried on my
>> machine with options := {('-I' , includeDir fullName)}.
>> and it seems to work
>
> I also think they're not necessary.
>
>>
>> Now libclang is the reason that in some cases we need such options. Since we
>> use libclang to parse the header files we should make sure that we pass it
>> everything it needs to successfully process the header.
>> So if anyone has a hard time generating bindings with talkffi for a library
>> X, then a starting point might be to try understanding what are the options
>> needed by clang to compile the headers.
>>
>> In the future I plan to add some kind of script editor for writing the
>> bindings, which will show the messages from libclang. so that in case of
>> compilation error (due to missing options, or c syntax errors) we can see
>> them in the image.
>>
>> About generating the bindings directly on a mac, I've done it using a hand
>> compiled version of libclang configured with (../configure
>> --enable-optimized --enable-jit --target=i686-apple-darwin10). So if you are
>> willing to download libclang and compile it, maybe you don't need a linux vm.
>
> Thanks for the explanations.
>
>>
>> Ok, that's it for now. Thanks again for the great video
>
> My pleasure :)
>
>> Ciprian
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Apr 6, 2013 at 10:02 PM, Max Leske <maxle...@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On 06.04.2013, at 20:21, Stefan Marr <smallt...@stefan-marr.de> wrote:
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>> > Hi:
>> >
>> > On 06 Apr 2013, at 19:30, Max Leske wrote:
>> >
>> >> I recorded a new screencast with a short tutorial on how bindings for
>> >> libgit2 (or any other library for that matter) can be created using
>> >> TalkFFI.
>> >>
>> >> http://vimeo.com/maxleske/talkffibindings
>> >
>> > I skimmed through it. Looks good.
>> > But, I noticed that the video actually stops before generating the
>> > bindings :)
>> > That makes it feel like there is something missing.
>>
>> Damn! Got me :) I realized that straight after I had hit stop.
>> Still, for me the hard part was the compilation and setup. I figured out the
>> bindings pritty quickly.
>>
>> Maybe I'll add short bit at the end tomorrow.
>>
>> Max
>>
>> >
>> > Best regards
>> > Stefan
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > --
>> > Stefan Marr
>> > Software Languages Lab
>> > Vrije Universiteit Brussel
>> > Pleinlaan 2 / B-1050 Brussels / Belgium
>> > http://soft.vub.ac.be/~smarr
>> > Phone: +32 2 629 2974
>> > Fax: +32 2 629 3525
>> >
>> >
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Dr. Ciprian TEODOROV
>> Ingénieur Développement CAO
>>
>> tél : 06 08 54 73 48
>> mail : ciprian.teodo...@gmail.com
>> www.teodorov.ro
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