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Perl 6/Parrot internals ex-design team lead.

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Monday November 25, 2002
10:21 PM

Native Call Interface for Parrot

[ #9147 ]

Well, the infrastructure, API, and protocols are in. Parrot can now automatically wrap most any C library, generating shims that look like regular parrot subs to parrot, but call into the library for you. Which means that, if you've set things up right, you can do:


    loadlib P1, "sdl"
    dlfunc P0, P1, "SDL_Init", "ii"
    set I5, 255
    invoke
    unless I5, OK
    hcf "SDL_Init failed!"
  OK:
    print "SDL_Init worked just fine"
    exit

Well, OK, except for the hcf part, since exceptions aren't in yet. Soon, though...


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  • Not Schwern, Schwing! How long before Intrepid Leader Dan has the Objective CParrot bridge running and we can write our Mac GUI apps in Parrot assembly language? :-)

    --Nat

    • Heh. Might be a while. Shoudn't be a problem to subclass a Parrot object from Objective-C, or vice versa, though.
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