From: Lars Rune Nøstdal
Subject: Re: winapi & lisp
Date: Mon, 06 Oct 2008 03:46:51 +0000
Message-ID: <1223264811.10480.671.camel@blackbox>

On Sun, 2008-10-05 at 19:22 -0700, ··········@gmail.com wrote:
> How can I invoke WinAPI functions from Lisp directly (without McCLIM
> and other wrappings)? I use CLisp and SBCL.

Yup, see CFFI:
  http://common-lisp.net/project/cffi/


..or if you don't care about or need portability between Lisps you can
use the FFI stuff in CLISP or SBCL directly:

  http://www.sbcl.org/manual/Foreign-Function-Interface.html
  http://clisp.cons.org/impnotes.html#dffi

CFFI does have some nice things going for it besides
"portability-enabling" the FFI stuff though.

-- 
Lars Rune Nøstdal   || AJAX/Comet GUI type stuff for Common Lisp
http://nostdal.org/ || http://groups.google.com/group/symbolicweb

From: Kenny
Subject: Re: winapi & lisp
Date: Mon, 06 Oct 2008 15:46:57 +0000
Message-ID: <48ea3300$0$4910$607ed4bc@cv.net>

Lars Rune Nøstdal wrote:
> On Sun, 2008-10-05 at 19:22 -0700, ··········@gmail.com wrote:
> 
>>How can I invoke WinAPI functions from Lisp directly (without McCLIM
>>and other wrappings)? I use CLisp and SBCL.
> 
> 
> Yup, see CFFI:
>   http://common-lisp.net/project/cffi/
> 
> 
> ..or if you don't care about or need portability between Lisps you can
> use the FFI stuff in CLISP or SBCL directly:
> 
>   http://www.sbcl.org/manual/Foreign-Function-Interface.html
>   http://clisp.cons.org/impnotes.html#dffi
> 
> CFFI does have some nice things going for it besides
> "portability-enabling" the FFI stuff though.
> 

And IIRC the native CLisp FFI had some things going for it over CFFI, 
such as being able to just throw a lambda form at a callback parameter 
with CLisp worrying about the rest.

But CFFI will make you more friends.

Meanwhile, where is that project that was wrapping win32 windowing API? 
That would have a ton of examples.

hth,kt