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Re: [Gcl-devel] xgcl
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Michael Koehne |
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Re: [Gcl-devel] xgcl |
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Mon, 19 Jan 2004 17:56:43 +0100 |
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Moin Camm Maguire,
> > I can see there is a xgcl in there. Is anybody
> > using that? I just peeked the makefile and the
> > readme, but it looks old. Interesting though.
> Yes, I'll cc this message to two xgcl users who might be able to
> comment better than I. It would be great to just have xgcl support be
> activated via a loadable module in the standard build, IMHO.
the xgcl-2 that is shipped with GCL has some flaws because of age.
- it needs static linking of a complete set of interface defentry's
and defconstant's to X and Xlib producing a large GCL binary.
- string handling of this package is crufted and should be burried.
1996 Richard Mann improved xgcl-2 by adding OpenGL function and by
using GCL string's for string handling. Using Paul Viola's wrapper
macors for Lucid's foreign-define and foreign-function was nice for
platform interoperability, but is now obsfucation as Lucid is gone.
At this time many Linux and BSD systems had been a.out - where dynamic
linking in a way GCL did, was much easier. ELF was introduced to
simplyfy dynamic linking, it did for Postgres and Perl - but was a
shoot in our foot for GCL.
I took both sources last year for a other try on native bindings for
XLib and OpenGL. The current status is a clean up and integration of
both sources, with the goal that both have to run their demo
applications with the minimal change of package imports. A 2nd source
is for wrapping defentry macros into using ELF for loading. Goal is
a dynamic way of using full featured X and OpenGL from a relative
small ansi-gcl+elf-loader core.
Unfortunately noam.copyleft.de is down since friday - so I can not
offer a download URL ;-( I need to poke the people at our uni again,
and may have to search for an other host, if they dont move.
The site is not small in terms of traffic - e.g. its hosting my OS/360
Y2K and MVS Y2K source, object and patches - and it requires CGI::pWiki
to be installed. File system size for the UML that was running noam
is about 3GIG - if you are root at some university webserver and
instantly want to offer some webspace ;-)
Bye Michael
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