[Haskell-cafe] Fwd: c2hs: E.g. #include <iostream> OK in *.cpp's, but not in *.h's

[Nick Rudnick]

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From: Nick Rudnick <nick.rudnick at gmail.com>
Date: 2014-04-07 15:28 GMT+02:00
Subject: Re: [Haskell-cafe] c2hs: E.g. #include <iostream> OK in *.cpp's,
but not in *.h's
To: Ian Ross <ian at skybluetrades.net>


Hi Ian,

thanks for clearing up :-)

So you mean the trick of hsqml primarily is

(A) dummy typedefs to char, e.g.:

typedef char HsQMLStringHandle;

(B) 'extern' sigantures, e.g.:
extern void hsqml_init_string(HsQMLStringHandle*);

THIS WORKS...

Occasionally, one might use two headers, e.g. a *.hpp as actual C++ header
neither listed in the *.cabal nor the *.chs, where instead it would be
represented by a *.h, as described above.

No more...??

Thanks and cheers, Nick







2014-04-07 14:04 GMT+02:00 Ian Ross <ian at skybluetrades.net>:

Hi Nick,
>
> As far as I can tell from a quick look at hsqml, the stuff in Setup.hs
> isn't related to C2HS.  What's more relevant is that hsqml defines a C
> library wrapper around the C++ library it uses -- C2HS is only used on that
> C wrapper, not on the C++ library itself.  In general, C2HS doesn't support
> C++ at all, because it needs to be able to parse the header files that it
> includes and we use the C parser from the languagge-c package to do that.
>  Any C++ constructs will just cause breakage.  And your "old school" FFI
> definition doesn't look in any header files, which is why it has no trouble.
>
> Basically, if you want to do something like what hsqml does, just take a
> look in the cbits directory there, in particular at hsqml.h which is the
> header that defines the C wrapper around the C++ library.  This hsqml.h
> header is the one that's included in the C2HS files.  If you want to wrap a
> C++ library directly, C2HS probably isn't the tool for the job.  I know
> there was some work during the last GSOC on a C++ FFI wrapper, but I don't
> know if anything concrete came of it.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Ian.
>
>
>
> On 6 April 2014 20:22, Nick Rudnick <nick.rudnick at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Dear all,
>>
>> maybe this is a piece of c2hs behaviour I missed to understand, but it
>> appears happening with C++ style includes deep in the header call hierarchy
>> – in case of a such backend C++ library, if one wishes to refer to by *.h's
>> in c2hs (e.g. for access to types of it), one might have a problem.
>>
>> - 8< cSample.h ---------------------------------------------
>> #include <iostream> ///////// here, with c2hs, leading to build abort
>> #ifdef __cplusplus
>> extern "C" {
>> #endif
>> void sampleFunction();
>> #ifdef __cplusplus
>> }
>> #endif
>> - 8< cSample.cpp ---------------------------------------------
>> #include "cSample.h"
>>  #include <iostream> ///////// here no problem
>>
>> void sampleFunction(){
>>   std::cout << "OK" << std::endl;
>> }
>> - 8< ----------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> While 'old school' FFI (foreign import ccall) handles this effortlessly,
>> c2hs uses to abort with an exception like
>> C/cSample.h:3:20: fatal error: iostream: No such file or directory
>> compilation terminated.
>>
>> I see that hsqml gets around this, but apparently by tweaking Setup.hs in
>> a way not quite trivial – would this be necessary in any case, or are there
>> simpler alternatives?
>>
>> Please excuse if I oversaw something, but I am afraid I didn't see this
>> interesting issue covered elsewhere.
>>
>> Thank you a lot in advance & cheers, Nick
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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