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Re: how well can guile interface with C++?


Michael Vanier wrote:
> 
> I'm interested in using guile as an extension language for
> programs/libraries written entirely in C++.  Are there any issues with
> using guile and C++ that go beyond what one has to do to extend guile in C?

I've made a guile interface to a C++ library. The same sort of issues as
making a C interface. Possible and painful.

> 
> One thing that would be *really* cool, once GOOPS stabilizes, is to have a
> version of SWIG that can set up shadow classes in guile (i.e. guile classes
> whose methods correspond with those of underlying C++ classes).
> 
> Mike
> 
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> Mike Vanier     mvanier@bbb.caltech.edu
> Department of Computation and Neural Systems, Caltech 216-76
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