What is the easiest way to make a monster like wxWindows (in terms of classes) available for Parrot?
The easiest way isn't avaialble yet. That is custom dynamically loaded PMCs (classes) representing some functionality. Alreay working is the NCI (Native call interface) to call arbitrary C functions in some shared libs (modulo some struct handling and such, but e.g ncurses.so is running). Setting up required struct's from PASM isn't yet. As wxWindows is object oriented it would for sure better plug in Parrot's OO scheme, which is almost, hmm, well, ready ... (DAN) ...
(Or would it be easier to write a Parrot backend for gcc? ;-))
Why the smilies ;-) Parrot is a fine processor well suited for an optimizing compiler and with a reasonable architecture. Its not the first time that I'm thinking of such a hack.
... though it would need some extensions at both sides.
Are some gcc people listening?
leo
