Norman, Norman Gray wrote:
I've only just noticed this thread, or I would have jumped in earlier.
NP. My original message wasn't identified as anything to do with SWIG.
(a) This happened to me, too<http://groups.google.com/group/plt-scheme/browse_thread/thread/e4c09bcc41784f33/b77afd703eb6700 8?show_docid=b77afd703eb67008>
Once I knew what to look for, this article popped up onto my radar!
The SWIG folk seemed happy enough to take a documentation patch, but if the racket part of the docs is still as ... terse as it was, it might be worth offering them an update.
I well know what you mean! Contrast with the reams of documentation for the Java interface. However, aside from the -declaremodule bit, it's just about sufficient for an experienced (wearied) user.
(b) I gave up on SWIG after a short while, and just did the management myself -- it seemed simpler, in the end. With suitable macro magic, I was able to do all of the C nastiness without pain. The results are at<http://nxg.me.uk/dist/racket-librdf/> if you're interested.
I've got 160 symbols (constants and functions) to wrap -- so I'll be using the tool for that! However, SWIG doesn't play nice with 3m (I think it's a bit more the case that the C grammar accepted by ``raco ctool -xform'' is a bit too limited to cope with SWIG wrapper code). More frustrating is that SWIG offer a *LISP* CFFI wrapper. I would love to see it produce a racket FFI module -- I'd hope the code to be far cleaner than these C middle-layer wrappers. Is there a CFFI -> racket FFI conversion floating about in the world of men?
All the best, Norman
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