Eiffel Wrapper Generator

File Release Notes and Changelog

Release Name: 0.9.0

Notes:
EWG (Eiffel Wrapper Generator) is a tool that generates Eiffel wrapper classes for C libraries.
It can be used to create libraries that bridge the gap between Eiffel and C. It aims to work
for arbitrary ANSI C and with all common Eiffel compilers.

EWG is ideal for creating cross-platform, cross-eiffel-compiler and cross-c-compiler C library wrappers. It can handle pretty much all ANSI C, but understands Visual C and GCC extensions as well. 

It comes with the following real life examples:

* GTK 2
* SDL
* OpenGL
* Berkeley DB

Requirements:

* ISE Eiffel 5.6 / SmartEiffel 1.1 / Visual Eiffel 4.1
* GOBO 3.4

EWG works on Windows and on Linux supporting the following C compilers:

* gcc
* Visual C
* lcc-win32 (due to a bug in lcclib, support is limited)
* Borland C (support also limited)

Availability:
http://ewg.sourceforge.net

Contact:
aleitner@raboof.at



Changes:
* Improvements in the runtime library
* Improvements to the GTK wrapper abstractions
* Use of recommended environment variable ${ISE_EIFFEL} instead of old ${EIFFEL5}
* Improved documentation
* GTK/OpenGL wrapper added (Mark Bolstad)
* Various small wrapper clean-ups
* C AST now knows the sizes of array
* Correctly treating function as function parameters now
* Cleaner visitor pattern implementation for AST
* Cleaner build system
* Improved configurability
* VE floats now correctly handled
* Generating wrappers for arrays
* Generating wrappers for nested composites
* Generating wrappers for unions
* Much cleaner C glue code
* Mac OS X support (Till Bay, Joseph Ruskiewicz)
* Simple, Callback, SDL and OpenGL examples work on MAC OS X now
* Neat EWG logo (Till Bay)
* Removed all potential CAT-calls (via gelint)
* Resolving feature name clashes with features from class ANY in generated code
* Support for ePosix 2.3
* Several dispose related bugs fixed (Mark, I)
* Support for GCC __asm C extension
* Support for new msc extensions (new __declspec constructs)