Re: [Vala] inline C

[Conrad Steenberg <conrad steenberg caltech edu>]

On Mon, 2008-12-15 at 19:39 +0100, Jürg Billeter wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-12-15 at 09:49 -0800, Conrad Steenberg wrote:
> > On Mon, 2008-12-15 at 12:42 -0500, Jamie McCracken wrote:
> > > On Mon, 2008-12-15 at 09:18 -0800, Conrad Steenberg wrote:
> > > > 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.
>
> Writing a C++ backend for Vala that still uses GObject for types
> declared in Vala should be doable, we might just need a bit refactoring,
> so we can reuse the existing backend in an optimal way. I'm not planning
> to work on that in the near future, though.
>
> Jürg

Thanks, I understand that. Sorry if it seemed like I implied some
pressure to implement anything :-)

Cheers,
Conrad