Re: ffi-helper: looking for C libraries to try

[Matt Wette]

> On Aug 8, 2017, at 3:00 AM, Catonano <address@hidden> wrote:
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> Matt,
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> 2017-07-15 1:17 GMT+02:00 Matt Wette <address@hidden <mailto:address@hidden>>:
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> Hi All,
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> I am working on a ffi-helper: a program that will read in a C dot-h file and 
> generate a Guile
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> I would be intrigued by the possibility to wrrite Gnome apps in Guile scheme
> 
> I know that there's a proejct for thhat, it's G-golf
> https://www.gnu.org/software/g-golf/ <https://www.gnu.org/software/g-golf/>
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> But I undertsand it's in its very early stage
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> Could there be any overlap between your ffi helper and G-golf ? 
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> Could your ffi helper work on te GObject introspection thing ?
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> Also, there's a library provided by Postgresql. Cwebber's guile-squee uses 
> that to pilot Postgresql from Scheme
> 
> A nice wrap would be cool !
> 
> Thanks !

Much of gobject got sucked in when compiling librsvg.ffi.  Supporting g-object 
was tough but it does compile.   I’m guessing this could help with the  
g-object stuff.  However, I’m not a GOOPS programmer, so someone else would 
have to work on the GOOPS layer.