Re: [Chicken-users] FFI problems

[Alex Drummond]

Sorry, forget about my previous post, I was just making a few stupid syntax 
errors and getting the wrong end of the stick. Silly me...

Alex

On Sunday 19 September 2004 16:28, Alex Drummond wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Firstly, I expect my problem stems from being confused about the difference
> between the following foreign type specifiers:
>
> c-pointer
> (c-pointer void)
> pointer
> (pointer void)
>
> My problem is getting some FFI code to compile, for example
>
> ; Define a foreign type for the opaque GObject structure.
> (define-foreign-type g-object c-pointer)
> ; Create a binding to the g_object_get_property function
> (define g-object-get-property
>   (foreign-lambda g-value "g_object_get_property"
>     (g-object self)
>     ((const c-string) property-name)))
>
> for which csc gives the error "illegal foreign return type `g-value'". If
> it makes any difference, I'm using a recent CVS build of Chicken because it
> fixes the debug extension.
>
> I'd really appreciate any help with this :)
> Alex
>
>
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