Re: [Chicken-users] how to map Scheme string to void* instead of char*

[felix winkelmann]

On 4/4/07, minh thu <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm a bit lost :
> I'm using foreign-parse to write bindings for the QuesoGLC library [1]
> (which I'll release as BSD3 egg; the library itself is LGPL).
> Some functions of this library accept string as argument; the type is
> void*, not char*.
> Building the bindings seems to go well but when I want to use such a function,
> Chicken tells me "bad argument type - not a pointer".
>
> I guess I'll have the same problem with void* return types.
> How should I handle those cases ?

How do you wrap those library functions? With easyffi? Then, you can
just change the argument type declarations to "char *".


cheers,
felix