From: Nit Khair <sentinel.2001@...>
Date: 2008-11-05T00:10:01+09:00
Subject: Re: FFI 0.1.1 (Foreign Function Interface) for Ruby 1.8.6/7 and 1.9

Sean O'halpin wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 2:38 PM, Ken Bloom <kbloom@gmail.com> wrote:

> 
> module NCursesFFI
>  extend FFI::Library
>  ffi_lib 'ncurses'
>  attach_function 'clear', [], :int
>  attach_function 'endwin', [], :int
>  attach_function 'getch', [], :int
>  attach_function 'initscr', [], :int
>  attach_function 'printw', [ :string ], :int
>  attach_function 'refresh', [], :int
> end
> 

Sean,
Going by the above, and the samples of structs on the blog, for a medium 
sized library such as ncurses, there can be some effort in getting this 
module ready. Will there be some kind of repository of such modules, so 
we are not duplicating each others effort ?

I'd like to also add that the above sample is working on osx 
10.5.5/darwin/ppc after a small modification in platform.rb above line 
28.

    ARCH = case CPU.downcase
    when /i?86|x86|i86pc|powerpc/
      "i386"
    when /amd64|x86_64/
      "x86_64"

I have added "powerpc" to the first "when". btw, i had a clean gem 
install.
Thanks.
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