Re: [DotGNU]Swig and C# (was: Strategy for dealing with C++ )

[James Michael DuPont]

--- Gopal V <address@hidden> wrote:
> If memory serves me right, Neil Cawse wrote:
> > ** now adding C#
> 
> Could you point me to your source code ? ... (I've written 80% of my
> generator in python anyway) .... I think it will be interesting to
> see
> how your code handles function pointers , structs and tracing back
> typedefs
> to their original types...
> 
> I have used Swig for python and found it grossly insufficent for my
> work ... (easy, but not sufficent) ... I finally wrote my own
> wrappers
> in C for Python ... which is a lot more flexible than SWIG 

But did you report the problems or look how the swig generators could
be modified?

> ... I
> suppose
> that might be true for C# as well ... But to be sure, I need a peek
> at
> Swig - C#.
There is a Swig C#? That is news.

> 
> My PInvoke wrapper is built from the idea originated from Rhys with
> X11#.
> Which is accessible from the dotgnu-libs CVS .. That concept of
> wrapping code without C call-ins , is as portable as PInvoke ever 
> gets ... (Rhys is guy to follow for portability....)

OK, gopal, I will start by looking at X11# now. Warming up the printer.

mike

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James Michael DuPont
http://introspector.sourceforge.net/

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