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Date: Sun, 4 Oct 2009 14:01:44 +0200
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Subject: [Lablgtk] [ANN] ocaml-gir 0.9 alpha - binding generator for 
	glib2-based libs
From: Adrien <camaradetux at gmail.com>
To: lablgtk <lablgtk at yquem.inria.fr>
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ocaml-gir is an automated binding generator for libaries based on
glib2, using the parsing done by gobject-intropesction[1] (although it
sucks and I may just diss it).

It is almost able to write bindings for webkit-gtk, dbus-glib and
other libraries. With minor editing (commenting out functions that
couldn't work), I've been able to write a small working browser using
webkit-gtk.

THe project is hosted on forge.ocamlcore.org . A tarball is available
[2] and git too [3], as well as gitweb [4] (development is done on the
master branch btw). The logic of the code is basically: ocamlgir.ml
parses the .gir (xml) file produced by g-ir-scanner and type.ml holds
functions to translate from the xml tree to a nicer format and finally
there is a .ml file for each file that has to be created (c.ml,
gtk.ml, g.ml, c_tags.ml, h.ml, ...). girstring.ml is a module to
change the casing of a string: FooBarBlaBla <-> FOO_BAR_BLA_BLA <->
foo_bar_bla_bla.

What is currently missing is signals/callbacks, inheriting between
libraries (webkit-gtk depends on libsoup) and something about
callbacks I'm not sure how I could do and which is the reason I am
writing this a bit before ocaml-gir is ready.

For instance, a function takes a DBusGProxyCallNotify* which is
defined as follows:
    typedef void (* DBusGProxyCallNotify)
                        (DBusGProxy *proxy, DBusGProxyCall *call_id,
void *user_data);
How should I write the C conversion macro to/from value?
Thanks.

And just a word about gobject-introspection: I hate it. =)


[1] http://live.gnome.org/GObjectIntrospection
[2] http://forge.ocamlcore.org/frs/?group_id=73&release_id=180
[3] http://git.ocamlcore.org/ocaml-gir/ocaml-gir.git
[4] http://git.ocamlcore.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=ocaml-gir/ocaml-gir.git;a=summary


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Adrien Nader

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