Generating shared library definitions in J is usually a very time-consuming business, involving a lot of ad-hoc code to parse the source. Usually the source is the .h files themselves, or definitions output by a c compiler.
Many years ago, the original winapi files were produced from definitions created for Visual Basic. This was much easier, as all the hard work had been done, and all that was needed was to reformat the definitions line by line. However, these old VB definitions are no longer up to date, and in any case, only worked on Windows. What I have looked for is definitions created for some other language, like matlab or perl, preferably cross-platform, for which we could create standard tools to reformat this for J. So far, I not found anything - there are tools for other languages, but their output seems almost as hard to read as the original source. Does anyone have suggestions for this? A specific example would be to create a set of gtk+ definitions. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
