[Openmcl-devel] New interface translator for Leopard (especially)

[Ron Garret]

On Nov 6, 2007, at 3:08 PM, Gary Byers wrote:

>
>
> On Tue, 6 Nov 2007, Ron Garret wrote:
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>> Is there an easy way to use ffigen to import other (non-Apple)  
>> libraries? (I'm specifically thinking of libmysql.)
>>
>> I tried the obvious thing:
>>
>> h-to-ffi.sh /usr/local/mysql/include/mysql.h
>>
>> but that didn't seem to do anything (though reverse-engineering one  
>> of the populate.sh scripts sure makes it look like it should have).
>
> I think that it should have created
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> ./usr/local/mysql/include/mysql.ffi  # in current directory

Ah!  There it is.  I guess I wasn't expecting it to copy the entire  
path.

> The directory structure (darwin-x86-headers64/*/C) does matter
> to other things that use the .ffi files and the .cdb files built
> from them, and CREATE-INTERFACES expects there to be a "populate.sh"
> script in the "standard" place.

I see.  Thanks!

rg