[Axiom-developer] Re: GCL and elf-loader

[Gernot Hueber]

Hi, 

Gabriel Dos Reis writes: 

> "Gernot Hueber" <address@hidden> writes: 
>
> | In the meantime I had a look to www.swig.org, which has been mention
> | on the axiom-* lists recently. IMHO it should be possible to generate
> | wrappers (lisp and aldor) with this tool - yet there is much black
> | magic inside, especially the way to extend swig. Swig supports
> | AllegroCL using FFI which is not included with GCL (at the moment) 
>
> I was thinking that the elf-loader approach would be very fruitful for
> Axiom as a long term solution.

From my point of view, integration of elf-loader in Axiom is pretty easy - 
and it opens a world. At the moment limited to my laptop ;-) 

I started this discussion to get feedback if _this_ approach with this style 
of wrappers make sense or if there are better solutions in a private queue 
(Tim and you mentioned independently ideas of an external library/language 
inferface, Gaby implemented a lisp wrapper for a lapack implementation which 
is have the way to be usable within Axiom, ...). 


Thanks 

Gernot 

> -- Gaby