From: Kenneth B Russell
Subject: Announcement: Header2Scheme 1.1, a C++ FFI generator for SCM
Date:
Message-ID: <1995Nov13.164353.1159@media.mit.edu>
Header2Scheme is an automatic C++ to Scheme (SCM) foreign
function interface generator. It is a tool for creating a simple,
consistent Scheme interface to a large number of C++ classes.
Header2Scheme works by traversing a directory tree containing
header files for a C++ class library and creates code which implements a
backend for a Scheme interface to the public interfaces of the described
classes. It has been successfully used to generate Ivy, a Scheme interface
to the Open Inventor 3D graphics toolkit.
New features in version 1.1 include:
- Garbage collection of C++ objects now works!
- Fixed two bugs which caused some accessors for overloaded
methods to get lost
- Added (void-null) procedure for getting a void-type NULL
pointer in Scheme when this opaque data type is defined.
- Created predicates for all C++ types, as well as a general
predicate "C++-object?"
Header2Scheme is available from the Header2Scheme home page at
http://www-white.media.mit.edu/~kbrussel/Header2Scheme/
More information on Ivy is available from
http://www-white.media.mit.edu/~kbrussel/Ivy/
For more information, contact Kenneth B. Russell, ········@media.mit.edu.
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