luajit-ffi

[Alex Rønne Petersen]

On 01-05-2012 17:43, so wrote:
> On Tuesday, 1 May 2012 at 15:31:05 UTC, Robert Clipsham wrote:
>> On 01/05/2012 16:24, so wrote:
>>> http://luajit.org/ext_ffi.html
>>> https://github.com/malkia/ufo
>>>
>>> How awesome is Mike Pall?
>>> I didn't dive into details of the code, but if he can do this with a
>>> dynamic language, why on earth D still need manual C bindings while
>>> having ABI compatibility? So luajit comes with a C compiler?
>>
>> Note that you can't just drop any C header file in there for that to
>> work (as far as I can tell), you still have to bring out individual
>> post-processed function declarations.
>
> https://github.com/malkia/ufo/blob/master/ffi/OpenCL.lua
> https://github.com/malkia/ufo/blob/master/ffi/OpenGL.lua
> If it can handle these 2 beasts.

I see no preprocessor directives.

>
>> Also, someone has written a libffi binding for D, which could probably
>> be adapted to work in a similar manor:
>>
>> https://github.com/lycus/libffi-d
>
> Neat. Still, having native C libraries means that you can just drop your
> C/C++ environment and start D. And i am sure you agree this is by far
> the biggest blocker for C/C++ developers.

I'm not sure what you're trying to say here. Elaborate/rephrase?

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- Alex