Re: Automated Win32 bindings with Alien?

[Fabio Mascarenhas <mascarenhas@...>]

On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 11:03 AM, steve donovan
<steve.j.donovan@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 2:49 PM, Jack Surfer <jack.surfer@hotmail.fr> wrote:
>
> Although I have a question for him: how are you storing the results of
> the header parsing? Obviously it would be an expensive operation to
> repeat each time. What is the 'database'?

I think serializing to a Lua table representing the header information
would be best, and fastest to get the information back.

> I am impressed with Jerome's bindings: looking at his examples, these
> are proper Windows API programs, done in Lua.  Definitely something
> that needs to be part of LfW, even if as an add-on via LuaRocks.
>
> A question for Fabio: what are the issues with Alien for 64-bit Windows?

I don't have a 64-bit Windows VM for testing, so I don't know. But it
works fine on Linux x64, so I think it should work. Could anyone try?

> steve d.
>

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Fabio Mascarenhas