Re: [q-lang-users] [qlist] SDL anyone?

[Andrew B. <and...@ya...>]

On 27 Dec 2006, at 08:39, Albert Graef wrote:

> I really have to write an introduction to Q-SWIG sometime, but I hope
> that with the SWIG docs and the Q examples you'll be able to find your
> way. ;-) Of course you could also use Q's "raw" C interface, which is
> documented fairly well in the manual, but SWIG is really the only
> practical option for wrapping bigger libs.

I just got the example from the SWIG website's tutorial to work with  
q.  Took about a half hour, most of which was spent fooling around  
building SWIG itself.  (One of the tests failed, and being the sucker  
that I am I got sucked into trying to figure out why.)

I don't know what the copyright is on their tutorial (http:// 
www.swig.org/tutorial.html) but just copying that and replacing all  
their 'Building a XXX Module' sections with a single 'Building a q  
module' would fit reasonably well in qdoc.  At least it would not  
take a lot of time to write.  ;^)

Well, my kids'll be up in about 7 hours, so it's bedtime for me.   
Tomorrow I'll try to rewrite SDL's 'testver' into q, adding SDL  
definitions as I go...  Ta, ta!

-andrew