From: Jeremy Henty <onepoint@...>
Date: 2008-12-12T19:48:09+09:00
Subject: Re: Q: FFI and C++?

On 2008-12-11, Alex Fenton <alex@deleteme.pressure.to> wrote:

> Latest SWIG does  include C as a target language.  In other words it
> can generate ANSI C wrapper code around C++ classes / libraries.

Very interesting!  Thanks.

> SWIG can also output a parse  of C++ classes and methods to XML. But
> if this is all you want to  do, probably the Rb++ route is better as
> it has existing Ruby classes for making use of the parse. I guess in
> theory you might also be able  to generate the FFI code from this at
> the same time.

That's my plan, but SWIG is an interesting option too.

Jeremy Henty