Re: ANN: Alien 0.3.1

[Thomas Harning <harningt@...>]

Jeff Pohlmeyer wrote:
> On Feb 13, 2008 12:39 AM, Fabio Mascarenhas <mascarenhas@acm.org> wrote:
>   
> > ...
> > Enjoy the GPL-free Alien 0.3.1!
> >     
>
> I couldn't get either of the demo programs to run - I don't
> have glut installed, and SuSE has some funny ideas about
> what "libc.so" means.
>
> So I decided to roll my own demo, feel free to use it if you like:
>
> require "alien"
> local gtk,p,i=alien.load("gtk-x11-2.0"),"pointer","int"
> gtk.gtk_init:types(nil,p,p)
> gtk.gtk_message_dialog_new:types(p,p,i,i,i,p)
> gtk.gtk_dialog_run:types(i,p)
> gtk.gtk_init(nil,nil)
> gtk.gtk_dialog_run(
>   gtk.gtk_message_dialog_new(nil,0,0,1,"Alien Rocks!"))
>
>
>
>  - Jeff
>   

Awesome!  This may be be a better hook for what LuaGTK/GTKLua (whatever 
it was) wanted to be...  I've always had problems with it and I bet it 
was due to the same issue that alien encountered on AMD64....