[Haskell-cafe] ANNOUNCE: Hs2lib-0.4.8

[Phyx]

Err, I mean size and alignment.

On Sat, Jul 2, 2011 at 8:03 AM, Phyx <lonetiger at gmail.com> wrote:
> It's all done by the tool itself. It uses hsc2hs to calculate the
> offset and size of the structures, but generating the actual
> structures is done inside the tool itself.
>
> Regards,
> Tamar
>
> On Sat, Jul 2, 2011 at 1:05 AM, Yves Parès <limestrael at gmail.com> wrote:
>> This is interesting,
>> From what I can see, you can automatically mashall haskell datatypes into C
>> structs.
>>
>> Are there portable libraries that do that ? Or do you do this by yourself ?
>>
>>
>> 2011/7/1 Phyx <lonetiger at gmail.com>
>>>
>>> What is it?
>>> ========
>>>
>>> A preprocessor and library which allow you to create dynamic libs
>>> from arbitrary annotated Haskell programs with one click. It also
>>> allows you to use the generated lib in C, C++ and C# just by including
>>> the generated header files.
>>>
>>> At a minimum it can be considered the inverse of c2hs.
>>>
>>> Where to get it?
>>> ============
>>>
>>> You can get it  from Hackage
>>> (http://hackage.haskell.org/package/Hs2lib) or by using cabal
>>> (cabal install Hs2lib).
>>>
>>> Documentation, Mailing List, Source, etc
>>> =======================
>>>
>>> Go to http://mistuke.wordpress.com/category/hs2lib/ for information.
>>>
>>> What's New?
>>> =========
>>>
>>> - Currently Supported:
>>>
>>> * Generates Marshaling information for arbitrary data types.
>>>  Types with kind other then * have to be fully applied. (e.g. Maybe
>>> String).
>>>  A specialized Marshaling instance is then generated for each of
>>> these instances.
>>> * Generates FFI exports for any function you mark, with FFI compatible
>>> type
>>> * Properly supports marshaling of lists. [Int]
>>> * Supports Ptr, FunPtr and StablePtr. Which introduces the possibility
>>> to have caches/sessions.
>>> * Supports Callbacks via Higher order functions (everything is auto
>>> generated from the function type)
>>> * Re-exports existing exports found in source file
>>> * Honors existing Storable instances found for types it needs
>>> * Avoids unsafePerformIO as much as possible, except for in one
>>> specific instance.
>>> * Generates Initialization functions for you
>>> * Hides unnecessary exports using a DEF file
>>> * Allows you to override default type conversions (e.g. String –>
>>> CWString)
>>> * Provides helper includes for C, C++ and C# (placed into wherever
>>> cabal places extra includes. %AppData%\cabal\Hs2lib-0.4.8 for windows)
>>> And more
>>>
>>> Details
>>> =====
>>>
>>> A more detailed documentation will follow in the next few weeks.
>>>
>>> Why 0.4.8?
>>> --------------
>>>
>>> This project has been in development for a very long time. Nearly two
>>> years on and off.
>>> It was developed mainly to facilitate the creation of Visual Haskell
>>> 2010. This is just the first public
>>> release of this tool.
>>>
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