Re: eXene and openGL

On Jan 5, 2007, at 9:26 PM, John Reppy wrote:

>
> On Jan 5, 2007, at 9:37 AM, brian wrote:
>
>> That would be great and solve the problem.
>>
>> A while back I wrote a swig -> xml -> sxml -> gambit-C FFI generator.
>>
>> I found swig to be quite robust.
>>
>> That's because it could understand function definitions and such.   
>> It didn't parse functions, but if they were in the include file,  
>> it could at least get the declaration and skip over the rest.
>>
>> ml-nlffigen doesn't like functions in the headers and it also  
>> doesn't like:
>>
>> __attribute__ (("whatever"))
>
> I think that with the right C preprocessor options, these should be  
> filtered out
> (something like -std=ansi).
>

Maybe, but I can't find which one.  -ansi certainly doesn't do it.

However -P is very useful in that it excludes those pesky line #'s


> As far as OStypes.h, it doesn't include function definitions on my  
> Mac; perhaps
> you meant a different file?

Sorry wrong file, it's  OSByteOrder.h

>
> Swig was designed to handle C++, so it pretty much has to deal with  
> function defs
> in header files.  CKit can handle them, so it shouldn't be too hard  
> to modify
> ml-nlffigen to ignore such things.
>


Yes it could.  Unfortunately we'll need a volunteer ;-)

I took a look at c-kit and I'm quite surprised that it can't handle  
the function defs.  It's seems to be capable.  It might be because  
they have __inline__ keywords and such in the way also.



Brian


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