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The Binding Generator C->Haskell
Manuel M. T. Chakravarty, chak@cse.unsw.edu.au
v0.15, 22 May 2003
C->Haskell is an interface generator that simplifies the development of
Haskell bindings to C libraries. The
tool processes existing C header files that determine data layout and function
signatures on the C side in conjunction with Haskell modules that specify
Haskell-side type signatures and marshaling details. Hooks embedded in the
Haskell code signal access to C structures and functions -- they are expanded
by the interfacing tool in dependence on information from the corresponding C
header file. Another noteworthy property is the lightweight nature of the
approach.
More background information is available in a research paper discussing
C->Haskell, which is at
http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~chak/papers/papers.html#c2hs.
However, this paper does not cover the more recent advanced features such as
function hooks and conditional compilation.
Copyright & Distribution
Copyright (c) [1999..2003] by
Manuel M. T. Chakravarty.
The manual is distributed under the terms GNU Free Documentation License
available from
http://www.fsf.org/copyleft/fdl.html.
The master copy of this document is at
http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~chak/haskell/c2hs/; the source is in
SGML, which allows you to produce a selection of standard formats, including
HTML and Postscript.
Contributions
If you have any comments, suggestions, or contributions, please send them to
chak@cse.unsw.edu.au.
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