c2hsc: Convert C API header files to .hsc and .hsc.helper.c files

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Convert C API header files to .hsc and .hsc.helper.c files


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Dependencies base (>=4 && <5), c2hsc, cmdargs (>=0.9), containers (>=0.4), data-default (>=0.5.3), directory (>=1.1), filepath (>=1.3), HStringTemplate (>=0.7.1), language-c (>=0.4), logging (>=1.3.0), mtl (>=2.0), pretty (>=1.1), split (>=0.2), temporary (>=1.1.2.5), text (>=0.11.3.1), transformers (>=0.2) [details]
License BSD-3-Clause
Author John Wiegley
Maintainer John Wiegley <johnw@newartisans.com>
Category Development
Home page https://github.com/jwiegley/c2hsc
Source repo head: git clone https://github.com/jwiegley/c2hsc
Uploaded by JohnWiegley at 2017-12-09T22:41:18Z
Distributions NixOS:0.7.1
Reverse Dependencies 1 direct, 0 indirect [details]
Executables c2hsc
Downloads 12822 total (5 in the last 30 days)
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Readme for c2hsc-0.7.1

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Converts C API header files to .hsc and .hsc.helper.c files

Usage: c2hsc --prefix=<Lib Prefix> <FILE>.h

This will create <FILE>.hsc, and <FILE>.hsc.helper.c if the header file contains inline functions.

For example, in hlibgit2 on the Mac I'm using:

c2hsc --prefix=Bindings.Libgit2 --cppopts=-U__BLOCKS__ \
    libgit2/include/git2/tree.h

Known issues:

  • Need to output vararg functions with a comment mentioning they are not translatable to the Haskell FFI

Also, please note that this tool will never be 100% accurate. It cannot translate macros, or anything related to the preprocessor, for example. It often misses necessary #include files, and will get them wrong in any case if preprocessor conditionals are involved.

The goal of c2hsc is to solve the hardest 80% of the problem of creating an FFI library. The remaining 20%, plus validation of the results, is an exercise necessarily left to the user.