From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Javier Sancho Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.user Subject: Re: Guile OpenGL bindings Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2013 14:02:29 +0100 Message-ID: References: <871ud0p6u0.fsf@pobox.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1359723763 25764 80.91.229.3 (1 Feb 2013 13:02:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2013 13:02:43 +0000 (UTC) Cc: guile-user To: Andy Wingo Original-X-From: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Feb 01 14:03:01 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-user@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1U1GGi-0006rc-Bt for guile-user@m.gmane.org; Fri, 01 Feb 2013 14:03:00 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39075 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1U1GGP-0006XQ-Pa for guile-user@m.gmane.org; Fri, 01 Feb 2013 08:02:41 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:37540) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1U1GGG-0006O0-Dr for guile-user@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Feb 2013 08:02:34 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1U1GGF-0000AZ-4Y for guile-user@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Feb 2013 08:02:32 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-ee0-f44.google.com ([74.125.83.44]:58602) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1U1GGE-0000AT-Uw for guile-user@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Feb 2013 08:02:31 -0500 Original-Received: by mail-ee0-f44.google.com with SMTP id l10so2138655eei.3 for ; Fri, 01 Feb 2013 05:02:29 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:x-received:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=bjXYTlfEt1NkM9KwEME3izD6P8A+YhJIjFLPphC5kLE=; b=z48BjtC4PNiWkCMWxwuxxUL3hJ6tP+2RMoPzZQs5QOhuNRexj+u07dnDf1PSZ8MNsP kyVRO1qbSv1D9CMqmRWkhQncm9qY074moCnEuikw02QOmxYYZNckl+iHtL9pwbx6K6Tu jJwrH9Tlxuc0qeW6XyrMvV0LcL7+/uFMq/dG6oNtdkpoZLIVXTDi9zpOrudgxRC814L+ f6rslHyqM4PEgsapVMA2BiVFODjASWx9dUAQfIUr8q1msBWFzee6836m0fomURK5U8Eq ZJtEA9AcZM0zVCm5baQCeY8QtGVP+y903ZUz/A7YtcP649qHr97oQFrApkEFUBZWVwOU msYA== X-Received: by 10.14.210.132 with SMTP id u4mr38419791eeo.19.1359723749556; Fri, 01 Feb 2013 05:02:29 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: by 10.14.45.76 with HTTP; Fri, 1 Feb 2013 05:02:29 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <871ud0p6u0.fsf@pobox.com> X-Google-Sender-Auth: VGP-XBCuVrRRaFVA0IlFMWdMm50 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 74.125.83.44 X-BeenThere: guile-user@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: General Guile related discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.user:9972 Archived-At: Andy Wingo wrote: > Hi Javier, Hi. > Have you had time to think about GL bindings for Guile? Not much. I've been a little busy with my first child :-) Just this week I'm back to thinking about it. > The idea is to use the FFI to make a low-level, complete interface, and > then as needed to make higher-level more Scheme-like wrappers. I also > really wanted documentation, so I munged the upstream docbook into > texinfo and wrote that out into docstrings and .texi files. The binding > isn't working yet, but maybe soon. I'd like to avoid C if I can. Aleix Conchillo is also working with OpenGL and encountered a problem with glutInit and char**. You can see it at http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guile-devel/2012-07/msg00074.html Someone mentioned performance issues when using FFI, too. > Daniel has an FFI-based GLUT wrapper that he is merging in that repo as > well. Are you interested in joining efforts? I can add you to the > gitorious project if you like. Well, I can't promise anything, but yes, I'm very interested in this projec= t. This weekend I'll try to hack a little. Cheers. -- Javier Sancho Fern=E1ndez - http://www.jsancho.org/ Associate Member of the Free Software Foundation - http://www.fsf.org/ Contra el DRM - http://www.defectivebydesign.org/what_is_drm