Re: winapi & lisp

#1 10-07-2008, 01:31 AM

On Mon, 2008-10-06 at 11:46 -0400, Kenny wrote:
> Lars Rune NÃ¸stdal wrote:
> > On Sun, 2008-10-05 at 19:22 -0700, dsblizzard@gmail.com wrote:
> >
> >>How can I invoke WinAPI functions from Lisp directly (without McCLIM
> >>and other wrappings)? I use CLisp and SBCL.
> >
> >
> > Yup, see CFFI:
> > http://common-lisp.net/project/cffi/
> >
> >
> > ..or if you don't care about or need portability between Lisps you can
> > use the FFI stuff in CLISP or SBCL directly:
> >
> > http://www.sbcl.org/manual/Foreign-F...Interface.html
> > http://clisp.cons.org/impnotes.html#dffi
> >
> > CFFI does have some nice things going for it besides
> > "portability-enabling" the FFI stuff though.
> >
>
> And IIRC the native CLisp FFI had some things going for it over CFFI,
> such as being able to just throw a lambda form at a callback parameter
> with CLisp worrying about the rest.
>
> But CFFI will make you more friends.
>
> Meanwhile, where is that project that was wrapping win32 windowing API?
> That would have a ton of examples.
>
> hth,kt

I think you mean this one: http://common-lisp.net/project/graphic-forms/

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