Re: Ada (GNAT) and GNU Scientific Library

[Jeffrey Creem <jeff@thecreems.com>]

george@gentoo.org wrote:
> On a related note, I recently "resurrected" the cbind package. It was
> one of the packages we had in portage (that's Gentoo) and which I did
> not, at the time, update yet. The usual search however did not turn up
> any update information. In fact all the references I found were
> pointing at the location which now look dead (If anybody can give me
> any pointers to anything  "official" I'd be gratefull to hear of
> course). Fortunately we still had the sources on our mirrors, so I
> somewhat cleaned them up and repackaged (I don't remember all the
> details right now, minor stuff mostly. Most notably, I converted some
> script from csh to bash, in order not to force tcsh dependency just for
> one 20-liner. The rest was trivial IIRC (not that even that was hard
> :))). If anybody is interested to have it you can get the repackaged
> sources here:
> http://dev.gentoo.org/~george/src/cbind-6.0.tar.bz2
> or on any of our mirrors. Just run make to build, it only needs gcc and
> make AFAICT. I intend to keep it for as long as I can "maintain" it. I
> briefly tested it on some .c file - incidentally that was my attempt to
> test some gsl function :), and it seemed to spit some reasonably
> looking code for some gsl header file. Although I did not test this
> further at the time.
> 
> There were also announcements of an ongoing effort to produce a SWIG
> module, however my understanding is that is not yet finished (and IIRC
> it aims at C++ bindings). Meanwhile you can try throwing cbind at the
> task - it may help produce some bindings at least for the needed
> functions.
> 

Actually, SWIG will bind to more than just C++. It really is a N-way 
language binding generator. I've not checked the progress recently (the 
work is being done in the SVN repository of of the GNUAda project on 
sourceforge)..