OpenEuphoria

Re: SWIG/Euphoria

• Posted by "Hawke'" <mikedeland at NETZERO.NET> Aug 04, 2000
• 441 views

hrm....
and someone just asked if u can use .ocx in euphoria
for VB 'including'....
could swig be used for that i wonder???
(see mjaksen:Linking to .OCX files in WinEu)
talk about making the cart beat the horse tho to
make this work ROFL...
----- Original Message -----
From: Cuny, David at DSS <David.Cuny at DSS.CA.GOV>
To: <EUPHORIA at LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU>
Sent: Friday, August 04, 2000 11:02 AM
Subject: SWIG/Euphoria


> I've posted my beta 1.0 version of SWIG to the Euphoria home page. The
> description is a bit cryptic, so I figured I should explain it a bit.
>
> SWIG is a program written by people people much more clever than me. It
can
> be found at http://www.swig.org. SWIG makes it easy to add C/C++ library
> functions into scripting languages such as Tcl/Tl, Python, Perl and Guile.
> You feed it an interface file (basically, the library's header file,
> slightly modified), and it generates bindings for the language of your
> choice. To add the new functions to your favorite language, you just
> recompile the language with the new bindings that SWIG produced.
>
> So what does this have to do with Euphoria? Well, I've coded a module onto
> SWIG to generate wrappers for Euphoria. That means  it should be fairly
easy
> to use your favorite C/C++ library in Euphoria.
>
> Since we don't have the source for Euphoria, SWIG/Euphoria takes a
slightly
> different approach than other SWIG modules. It generates the source for a
> DLL file and Euphoria wrappers. Compile the DLL, include the Euphoria
> wrappers, and you've added your favorite C/C++ library to Euphoria.
>
> Well, in theory, anyway. Some caveats:
>
> 1. This is a beta, so I haven't tested it extensively.
> 2. It (currently) only supports Windows.
> 3. You need to be know how to compile the DLL with C/C++.
>
> What might this be useful for? Graphic and sound libraries come to mind
> (GLUT/OpenGL, SciTech MGL, Allegro/Win32), as well as GUI toolkits
> (GraphApp, FLTK, V, wxWindows). Personally, my goal is to add wxWindows to
> Euphoria.
>
> Feedback is welcome!
>
> Thanks!
>
> -- David Cuny
>


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