On Wed, 2011-05-18 at 23:04 +0100, Reuben Thomas wrote:
> Given the recent interest in binding Lua to C, I thought the
> following, rough and ready as it is, may be of interest.
>
> I'm pleased to announce Squeeze, the friendly alien:
>
>
https://github.com/rrthomas/squeeze
>
> squeeze uses the output of ctypesgen-json, which parses C headers into JSON:
>
>
https://github.com/rrthomas/ctypesgen-json
>
> (ctypesgen-json is a modified version of ctypesgen, which parses C
> headers into Python.)
>
> So far, I have done minimal testing: ctypesgen-json successfully
> generates JSON for my system's stdlib.h, which squeeze can load.
> Having done this, I can run drand48(). This is about as early as
> releasing gets!
>
> My own use-case for this is generating C bindings for the Lua version
> of GNU Zile:
>
>
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/zile.git/log/?h=lua
>
> Currently, Zile uses luaposix, lrexlib and lcurses, all of which I
> maintain or co-maintain. Maintaining the C is a drag, and, much worse,
> needing to download and install these libraries is a drag for users
> who want to build Zile. I want to replace all of them with alien. I am
> not sure yet how much mileage there is in this idea, but I intend to
> find out now that I have squeeze.
>
