[NewIO-developers] Importing API's into NewIO

[Jason R. <ja...@ne...>]

Hey guys,

Something I've realized about the current source tree is that it would be
easy (using the msg_send_[TYPE] functions and the header files to implement
functions) to write a parser to grab API's out of compiled binaries (ELF,
PE, etc) and parse them into usable NewIO C code to add functionality to the
client.  You could really just prefix all the functions with _nio_[LIBNAME]
or something and add a switch to define I/O types (SDL, AGAR, OpenGL)
efficiently.

Automated API imports can be difficult to actually release as a feature
though, and I haven't found a decent ELF parsing library (objdump's doesn't
actually look very nice).
Could definately make porting code a might bit simpler, though.  Thoughts?