[Chicken-users] foreign-lambda return types

[Burton Samograd]

Hi,

The library I'm trying to write a wrapper for is based on
pseudo-object oriented C, which contains procedures like

object_t* object_new()
void object_delete(object_t*)

I've gotten the wrapper working by doing:

(define object-new (foreign-lambda (pointer void) object_new void))
(define object-delete (foreign-lambda void object_delete (pointer void)))

but what I would like to do is something like:

(define object-t '(pointer void))
(define object-new (foreign-lambda object-t object_new void)
(define object-delete (foreign-lambda void object_new object-t)

which gives me the following error when I compile:

Error: illegal foreign return type object-t

I think what I'm really trying to do is just a string replacement at
compile time for object-t -> (pointer void), but my macro writing
skills aren't up to par for that yet.

Could someone help me out with an example on how to get this to work?

TIA.

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