RE: FFI in Emacs

[Burton Samograd]

From: address@hidden [mailto:address@hidden On Behalf Of Michael Albinus
Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2012 12:43 AM
To: address@hidden
Subject: Re: FFI in Emacs

"John Wiegley" <address@hidden> writes:

>>>>>> Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:
>
>>>> So if we update Dave's patch, it can be committed toward 24.2?
>>>> http://www.loveshack.ukfsn.org/emacs/dynamic-loading/
>
>> Possibly, yes.  I haven't looked at the code, so I can't whether I'd
>> like it or not, and we'd want someone willing to maintain it.
>
> I took a look at Dave's code, and it's not so much an FFI patch as a
> "writing Emacs Lisp functions in C" patch.
>
> A real FFI patch would let me dlopen any C library and call functions
> within it, such as openssl or zlib.  Dave's patch is more like what Python 
> allows:
> writing Emacs Lisp extensions in C that can be loaded as shared libraries.

> Maybe it's worth to look on what the Guile folks have done.

> http://www.gnu.org/software/guile/manual/html_node/Foreign-Function-Interface.html#Foreign->
>  Function-Interface

I might also suggest looking CFFI which is a wrapper around the mess of 
individual FFI APIs for the common lisp world.  I would think that it is a good 
example of 'common denominator' for FFI features:

http://common-lisp.net/project/cffi/

--
Burton Samograd


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