On Mon, 2008-12-15 at 09:49 -0800, Conrad Steenberg wrote: > On Mon, 2008-12-15 at 12:42 -0500, Jamie McCracken wrote: > > On Mon, 2008-12-15 at 09:18 -0800, Conrad Steenberg wrote: > > > Hmmm, I would love to be able to use C++ libraries from Vala (or > Genie, > > > since it's a natural jump from Numeric Python which I currently use). > > > > > > Any ideas on how to do that? Compile the vala/genie-produced C code with > > > a C++ compiler? > > > > > > if you want vala to output to c++ objects instead of gobject C then you > > would have to code a backend for vala but this is a lot of work > > > > jamie > > Yes, I can imagine. I notice that SWIG can now produce C wrappers for C > ++ code, so that may be one way to go. In the long term it would be nice > to have a sort of vapi++ to call C++ code, even though GObject is still > used.
Writing a C++ backend for Vala that still uses GObject for types declared in Vala should be doable, we might just need a bit refactoring, so we can reuse the existing backend in an optimal way. I'm not planning to work on that in the near future, though. Jürg _______________________________________________ Vala-list mailing list Vala-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/vala-list
