From: Thomas Gagne
Subject: Learning CLISP
Date: 
Message-ID: <o8mdndRQt7Ij4yfcRVn-jA@wideopenwest.com>
I'd like to play with LISP, using it with other languages.  Namely, I'd like 
to find some documentation about how I might interface it with a C-library for 
middleware <http://isectd.sourceforge.net/> and Smalltalk.

Is CLISP a good LISP to try that out with?  Where might documentation on 
interfacing to APIs exist?
From: Thomas Gagne
Subject: Re: Learning CLISP
Date: 
Message-ID: <wqmdnYNDeuMrFSfcRVn-sA@wideopenwest.com>
Already changed my mind.  I'm going to look into the Lisp-in-a-Box described 
in Practical Lisp's online chapters.  Sounds like a decent book.  I'll figure 
out how to interface to C functions with it.

Thomas Gagne wrote:
> I'd like to play with LISP, using it with other languages.  Namely, I'd 
> like to find some documentation about how I might interface it with a 
> C-library for middleware <http://isectd.sourceforge.net/> and Smalltalk.
> 
> Is CLISP a good LISP to try that out with?  Where might documentation on 
> interfacing to APIs exist?
From: Luis Oliveira
Subject: Re: Learning CLISP
Date: 
Message-ID: <3dhr82-h5c.ln1@netman.ath.cx>
Thomas Gagne skribis:
> Already changed my mind.  I'm going to look into the Lisp-in-a-Box described 
> in Practical Lisp's online chapters.  Sounds like a decent book.  I'll figure 
> out how to interface to C functions with it.

"Lisp in a Box" <http://common-lisp.net/project/lispbox/> uses either
Allegro CL or CLISP so you have (at least?) three choices to interface with C:

  - Allegro's FFI:
<http://franz.com/support/documentation/6.2/doc/contents.htm#foreign-functions>

  - CLISP's FFI: <http://clisp.cons.org/impnotes/dffi.html>

  - UFFI: <http://uffi.b9.com/> This one has the advantage of being
    portable across several Common Lisp implementations (including
    Allegro CL, but not CLISP).


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From: Kenny Tilton
Subject: Re: Learning CLISP
Date: 
Message-ID: <wwGud.80943$Vk6.80780@twister.nyc.rr.com>
Thomas Gagne wrote:

> Already changed my mind.  I'm going to look into the Lisp-in-a-Box 
> described in Practical Lisp's online chapters.  Sounds like a decent 
> book.  I'll figure out how to interface to C functions with it.

I just checked the table of contents for Practical Common Lisp and did 
not see an entry for foreign function interface stuff. So you will need 
the links Luis posted pointing out the FFI documentation for different 
Lisps and UFFI.

I am guessing you know C well, so you might get by with just the doc. 
And there are many open source projects which include bindings (the FFI 
glue one writes in order to talk to C) from which you can borrow or learn.

kenny

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