[Haskell-cafe] ANNOUNCE: cinvoke 0.1 released

[Gábor Lehel]

On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 7:32 PM, Remi Turk <rturk at science.uva.nl> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 07, 2011 at 09:41:27AM +0000, Max Bolingbroke wrote:
>> Hi Remi,
>>
>> On 6 March 2011 13:38, Remi Turk <rturk at science.uva.nl> wrote:
>> > I am happy to finally announce cinvoke 0.1, a binding to the
>> > C library cinvoke[1], allowing functions to be loaded and called
>> > whose names and types are not known before run-time.
>>
>> As the author of the libffi package
>> (http://hackage.haskell.org/package/libffi-0.1) which does a similar
>> thing, could you say when it would be appropriate to use one or the
>> other package?
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Max
>
> Of course:
>
> - libffi doesn't do library/function loading; you'll need to use
>  System.Posix.DynamicLinker or System.Win32.DLL for that.
>  cinvoke will not only load your libraries and functions,
>  but even collect the garbage afterwards.
> - Things seem to have changed, but back when I first looked at
>  cinvoke, getting libffi to run under windows didn't seem too
>  realistic.
> - If you need to pass C structs (by value), you'll have to use
>  libffi: cinvoke doesn't support them at all.
> - The current version of libffi is not exception safe (I do have
>  some code lying around here though...)
> - cinvoke is actually haddockized (although hackage still hasn't
>  generated the docs, apparently).

It's reporting a build failure.

>
> Groeten, Remi
>
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