On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 6:51 AM, Tudor Girba <tu...@tudorgirba.com> wrote:
> That is cool. > As long as we keep what is working, ahem, working. I now depend on quite a couple of FFI related libs. What I need is an easy FFI wrapping tool, like https://github.com/ronsaldo/swig. Is UFFI going that way? Phil > > Doru > > On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 11:37 PM, stepharo <steph...@free.fr> wrote: > >> Ronie is working on unifying all the api and proposing one syntax >> mechanism for >> - nativeBoost back-end >> - FFI >> and may be Alien >> >> The FFI situation is not good and we know we should improve it. >> >> >> On 29/10/14 20:18, Thomas Bany wrote: >> >> Oops, sorry, I was misslead by Steph reply. >> >> Some of the comments might still hold. For the *time: ’05:45’* code to >> work, you would need FFI to handle all the hassle of memory management and >> actually allocate the memory for 5 characters and copying it. I never used >> FFI but I doubt it does this. >> >> Looking at FFI library, you both have ExternalAddress (for the struct >> with char*) and ExternalType (for the struct with char[5]) that you can >> use. For the later solution, it still looks like you should define a >> specific 5 bytes ArrayOf5Char type. >> >> 2014-10-29 18:34 GMT+01:00 Annick Fron <l...@afceurope.com>: >> >>> I can’t use NativeBoost on the Raspberry, I would be glad if I could !!! >>> >>> >>> Le 29 oct. 2014 à 12:18, stepharo <steph...@free.fr> a écrit : >>> >>> > did you read the NativeBoost tutorial on the PharoForTheEntreprise >>> book? >>> > If you do please report potential mistakes so that we can improve. >>> > >>> > >>> > On 29/10/14 05:59, Annick Fron wrote: >>> >> I I have a C struct with a char* >>> >> >>> >> struct result { >>> >> char* time } >>> >> >>> >> I define an ExternalStructure in FFI , with one field of type char* >>> (note that the syntax char [5] is not accepted ! ). >>> >> >>> >> defineFields generates the accessors time and time: >>> >> >>> >> If I use >>> >> time: ’05:45’ >>> >> >>> >> I get an error. >>> >> How do I set a string value in an ExternalStructure ? >>> >> >>> >> Annick >>> >> >>> >> >>> >> >>> >> >>> >> >>> > >>> > >>> >>> >>> >> >> > > > -- > www.tudorgirba.com > > "Every thing has its own flow" >
