Re: SDL Bindings?

[Luke A. Guest <laguest@archeia.com>]

Oliver Kleinke <oliver.kleinke@c-01a.de> wrote:
> Am Fri, 3 Jan 2014 05:06:39 -0800 (PST)
> schrieb Marius Amado-Alves <amado.alves@gmail.com>:
> 
>>> Yes, the dump-ada-spec function. Trying that now. Seems to work.
>> 
>> It doesn't. The result does not compile (I was tricked into thinking
>> it did by GPS somehow). The generated code is illegal. A few faults I
>> could solve by hand. But there are circular dependencies (winnt <-->
>> windef) and other hard or impossible to solve faults.
>> 
>> It might be useful for discovering the mangled names.
> 
> Sure it's not a magic bullet. Even for C code -fdump-ada-spec does at
> times generate sub-optimal code. You always have to - at the least -
> check the generated code or clean it by hand. I Just wanted to give you
> a pointer to some example code that shows how the Ada code for binding
> to C++ looks like.

You'll never be able to write decent bindings to c++ from Ada due to the
fact that most c++ programmers keep inlining constructors meaning you
either have to reclass everything yourself or know which class' constructor
to call.

It's better to wrap in C and bind to that.

Luke