Re: [Vala] inline C

[Conrad Steenberg <conrad steenberg caltech edu>]

On Sat, 2008-12-13 at 13:00 -0500, Jamie McCracken wrote:
> The disadvantage to inlining is it destroys the platform independence -
> IE you would not be able to create a gcc front end for vala nor would
> you be able to have vala->c++ or vala->jvm/clr. 
>
> jamie

Hmmm, I would love to be able to use C++ libraries from Vala (or Genie,
since it's a natural jump from Numeric Python which I currently use).

Any ideas on how to do that? Compile the vala/genie-produced C code with
a C++ compiler?

Cheers,
Conrad
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