Re: [Vala] inline C

[Conrad Steenberg <conrad steenberg caltech edu>]

On Mon, 2008-12-15 at 12:42 -0500, Jamie McCracken wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-12-15 at 09:18 -0800, Conrad Steenberg wrote:
> > 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?
>
>
> if you want vala to output to c++ objects instead of gobject C then you
> would have to code a backend for vala but this is a lot of work 
>
> jamie

Yes, I can imagine. I notice that SWIG can now produce C wrappers for C
++ code, so that may be one way to go. In the long term it would be nice
to have a sort of vapi++ to call C++ code, even though GObject is still
used.

Btw. there is a Genie/Python-like language called Wirbel that compiles
directly to C++ - see http://mathias-kettner.de/wirbel.html. The
compiler and libraries are GPL, though, so any code it generates has to
be GPL'd too.

Cheers,
Conrad
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