Re: making a SCM from a GObject *

[Andreas Rottmann]

gregory benison <address@hidden> writes:

> I have had success using this method:
> 1) Create a .defs file which describes your gobject - based header
> file.  It describes all of your functions and custom types.  Look in
> the guile-gnome distribution in the 'defs' directory for examples.
> You can use the 'h2defs.py' program (found in the guile-gnome
> distribution) to generate this file automatically from your headers,
> if you have followed normal conventions in writing your headers.
> 2) Process your .defs file to automatically create C-to-guile glue
> code for your gobject types.  Look at any "*-spec.scm" file in the
> guile-gnome distribution to see how this works.
> 3) Compile the resulting C file into a shared library.  Load it from a
> scheme interpreter, and your gobject type will be available to use
> from scheme.
>
> ( guile-gnome experts: is this the right approach?? )
>
Yes, this is exactly how it works. Sometimes you have to do some extra
C coding for functions that take callbacks, for instance.


Regards, Rotty
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