mac <markus.gustavs...@gmail.com> writes:

> Hello all.
> I've started work on a clojure library for interoperating with C. It's
> always been a pain to do in Java but recently JNA (java native access)
> has taken away most of that pain.
> When using clojure however, it's nice to be able to stay in clojure
> and not drop to java (or C *shudder*).
> It's possible to use JNA from dynamic jvm languages already but those
> interfaces are slower and less type safe than the "direct mapping" way
> of doing things.
> Since I wanted this to be as fast and safe as possible but still
> clojure code only I have resorted to all kinds of voodoo, including
> bytecode generation and eval usage (oh the horror) so be warned :)
> Currently it is very rough but it can already handle all primitive
> types and also typed pointer arguments as nio buffers. I have included
> jna type support for structs, unions and callbacks (c function
> pointers) but that's completely untested yet.
>
> Here it is:
> http://github.com/bagucode/clj-native

Yes, there is a lot of voodoo. ;)
Have you seen this library: http://github.com/Chouser/clojure-jna ?
I'm using this one right now (it is really simple) and I'm wondering
what will be the advantage of using your implementation?

Br,
Rob

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