CNI for C

Wed Apr 7 12:21:00 GMT 2004

On Wed, 2004年04月07日 at 14:13, Andrew Haley wrote:
> Well, the nice thing about pinvoke as far as I can see is that you
> don't have to write anything: you can just call native DLLs directly.
> It's harder to do this in the general case of ISO C, because there
> aren't necessarily Java equivalents of the C types used to access
> DLLs. However, in many cases, and this possibly includes all the
> platforms we care about, there are.

Since Mono pulls it off with standard C, it should be possible.
> So, we could do something like pinvoke in gcj. We'd need to figure

That would actually be the ideal solution for this problem.
> out how to parse the C types and make them available to Java. We
> could get the C compiler to help with this.

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