Re: Automatically generating ctypes bindings with ctypesgen

Roman Yakovenko wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 5, 2010 at 8:41 PM, Chris Clark <[email protected]> wrote:
>   
>> ctypesgen can generate ctype based bindings for you automatically, all
>> you need is GCC.
>>
>> For more information see:
>>
>> http://code.google.com/p/ctypesgen/
>> http://code.google.com/p/ctypesgen/wiki/GettingStarted
>>     
> Please correct me if I wrong: the project uses hand-crafted C parser,
> right? If so, how much of C code it ables to handle?
>   

Not quite, it uses something yacc-like so it isn't exactly hand crafted 
per-se. If you are asking is this a fully capable C parser then the 
answer is no (it doesn't need to be). I have to confess I've not had to 
deal with the parser as it appear to just work with the output from GCC :-)

RE how much, GCC gets called to process header files (and only header 
files, it doesn't try and deal with regular C code). So ctypesgen only 
has to process, a (single) pre-processed header file in. It only handles 
GCC. I briefly experimented with the Microsoft Visual C++ pre-processor 
but that doesn't work at all.

Chris


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