Re: How to make GNU Guile more successful

[Mike Gran]

> On Friday, March 3, 2017 11:18 AM, Amirouche <address@hidden> wrote:

>> Now that the C preprocessor in NYACC/C99 is more robust I could start 
>> looking at generating some sort of  “FFI helper” functionality.  I have been 
>> thinking about this problem on and off for a while.  Completely automating 
>> things might be tough, but a “helper” would probably go a long way.


> Are you aware of scheme-bytestructures [0] that's what we are using> in 
> guile-git. If you target that API to wrap C structs, it would be helpful.

SWIG used to work for Guile.  It was a rather complete solution to
the wrapping problem.