Re: Questions on wrappers

[Germán Arias]

Sorry, I have not used the right word, I referred to a "language
binding" [1], as JIGS [2]

Thanks
Germán

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_binding
[2] http://www.gnustep.it/jigs/index.html

El lun, 22-06-2015 a las 10:27 +0200, Sebastian Reitenbach escribió:
> 
> Am 6/22/2015 um 9:22 AM schrieb Richard Frith-Macdonald:
> >> On 21 Jun 2015, at 06:08, Germán Arias <germanandre@gmx.es> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I want learn to make wrappers, but I don't have experience on this. So I
> >> have some questions (maybe stupid questions):
> >>
> >> 1) Is possible make wrappers using StepTalk?
> >>
> >> 2) Or I should look into java/ruby wrappers? In the case of ruby
> >> wrappers I see this needs the header "objc-api.h" which is no longer
> >> available on gcc, so I should use libobjc/libobjc2. Is possible do this
> >> using the headers of the "modern runtime"? Or "objc-api.h" is really
> >> necessary?
> > I do you mean by ‘wrappers’ ?
> > The only usage of the term that comes to mind is a wrapper for launching 
> > non-gnustep programs as if they were apps (eg using the openapp tool or 
> > from GWorkspace).
> > You don’t need a special programming language to do that … normally it’s 
> > just a directory containing a text file (Info-gnustep.plist), a tiny shell 
> > script, and perhaps some images.
> > You coulds look at the documentation in gnustep-gui, but it’s probably 
> > quicker/simpler to look at / copy the examples in gnustep svn at 
> > usr-apps/gworkspace/Apps_wrappers
> 
> I think German is more looking like into a bridge into another 
> (scripting-) language as wrapping that into objective-c calls?
> I have no experience with that, but once wrote a wrapper for libpcap, 
> that can be found in the gnustep-non-fsf SVN repo.
> At least there, I had no need to include low level objc headers to do that.
> 
> cheers,
> Sebastian
> 
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