Re: [Vala] C Integration, it's cool

[Evan Nemerson <evan coeus-group com>]

On Sat, 2011-12-17 at 14:46 +0100, Giulio Paci wrote:
> Il 16/12/2011 19:55, Rodrigo Herefeld ha scritto:
> > I've found a goodie, i needed to use libcurl in a vala program, just to
> > fetch a file regulary from the internet,
> > after some searching i end up doing that:
> >
> > i write all the curl thing in a c program , then i wrote a function that
> > makes the connection and return
> > the content of the file.
> > in vala i wrote
> >
> > exter  char[] my-curl-fun-in-c();
> > and called that from vala where i needed
> >
> > compile like that:
> > valac valasource.vala csource.c -X -l curl
>
> Hi, thank you for the tip.
>
> Maybe this is a bit off-topic for this thread, but I am writing a
> libcurl.vapi file here:
> https://github.com/giuliopaci/ValaBindingsDevelopment

Why not use libsoup?

I'm not saying you should use libsoup... I'm guessing you have your
reasons for not doing so and I'm genuinely curious about what they are.


-Evan