Re: Introspection API

John Ehresman <[email protected]> Fri, 25 Feb 2005 12:20:09 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnome.gtk+.devel.general,gmane.comp.gnome.language-bindings
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Owen Taylor wrote:
> A wrapper also gives the ability to use something else internally -
> perhaps the XptCall stuff from Mozilla which certainly works with
> MSVC. (I haven't really looked at the portability of libffi. The
> libgcj version is mixed up with GCC extensions, but that may not
> be fundamental to its operations.)

I basically agree with your notion of glib wrapper functions for this. 
Note that the Python ctypes module uses code from libffi and works with 
MSVC, but I haven't looked at the details yet.

The URL for ctypes is http://starship.python.net/crew/theller/ctypes

Cheers,

John