Re: Mike Pall's standalone FFI: a dream?

[Lorenzo Donati <lorenzodonatibz@...>]

On 12/05/2011 9.32, CrazyButcher wrote:
> There is a nice preprocessor (although not fully c compliant) inside
> http://icculus.org/mojoshader/ so one could run strings trhough that
> prior handing to ffi.cdef
>
> as was stated before, I think if someone really wants to, you could
> write a wrapper around cinvoke that mimics the ffi api or is there
> something fundamentally missing (except the performance issue, which
> you said wasn't as critical)?
> "create what you will" ;)

Indeed this is what I currently do. Very specific functional wrappers 
around cinvoke calls for C functions I need in my projects.

I have no time to program a more general solution and why reinventing 
the wheel if there's something much better around? :-)

That's why I dreamt of having such a nice things as Mike's FFI as a 
standalone module.


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-- Lorenzo