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[jsapigen-devel] jsapigen, C++ , and license of generated files

[Christian R. B. <chr...@gm...>]

Hello,

i would have two questions regarding jsapigen:

can i interface to C++ ?
  (instantiate objects .. call methods etc ..)

and:

what is the generated files' license?
(this is because i would like to hook up an lgpl project)

yours
  Christian

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Re: [jsapigen-devel] jsapigen, C++ , and license of generated files

[Thomas Z. <td...@us...>]

Hi

> can i interface to C++ ?

Well, jsapigen aims to generate pure ISO C89 code. So this can at least
be linked together.

My approach to C++ support has always been to auto-generate some wrapper
code around C++ constructs, something like

class my_class
{
	public:
	int foo();
};

int
my_class_foo(void *p)
{
	return ((my_class*)p)->foo();
}

and then call my_class_foo from within the JavaScript engine. But I
don't know if there already is such a wrapper generator.

Otherwise you might have a look at 'jsgen' [1]. AFAICS this program does
something similar to jsapigen and uses C++. However it doesn't seem to
be under active development.

> what is the generated files' license?

Whatever you want, copyleft, bsd-style, proprietary. Only jsapigen
itself is covered by the GPL.

Best regards, Thomas

[1] http://www.cs.unm.edu/~cello/jsgen/