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Re: Foreign function interface generators.

Excerpts from ext.guile: 18-Nov-97 Foreign function interface ..
Clifford Beshers@ohanlon (3200)

> I'm trying to use guile to do some work and need a decent foreign
> function interface generator.  The choices from the ftp site seem to
> be SWIG, g-wrap and ffi.  None seem to fit my needs completely, so, I
> thought I would try to start a discussion about ffi generators in
> general to get some progress toward a workable system for guile.

You probably haven't thought about ILU as an FFI generator, but in fact
it was originally designed for that purpose, and works pretty well.  See
the example in the ILU tar file, ILUSRC/examples/multlang/, for an
example of its use in this way.  More ILU info at
ftp://ftp.parc.xerox.com/pub/ilu/ilu.html.

Bill