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Re: how well can guile interface with C++?
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- Subject: Re: how well can guile interface with C++?
- From: Chris Bitmead <chris@tech.com.au>
- Date: Mon, 26 Jul 1999 17:40:38 +1000
- References: <199907260450.VAA17823@arathorn>
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
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------
> Mike Vanier mvanier@bbb.caltech.edu
> Department of Computation and Neural Systems, Caltech 216-76
> GNU/Linux: We can't lose; we're on a mission from God.
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