Hi,

 Thanks for all the help. I looked up at both the CamlIDL and the dbm
stuff . Both of them helped a lot. I even tried a few wrappers similar to
the dbm library. However, since my C library is quite extensive, using
CamlIDL seems to be a good idea.

 Can anyone please spare a few IDL samples to help me get a good idea of
it.

Thanks again for all the help
Ravi
 



On Thu, 8 Mar 2001, Jocelyn Serot wrote:

> Ravi Chamarty writes:
> > 
> > Hi ,
> > 
> >  I am trying to write OCaml interfaces around a C library.  I tried
> > looking at the Unix library and trying to understand it. However, I have
> > much complex data types to deal with.I was wondering if anyone could help
> > me out. 
> > 
> > Here is a signature of one of the C functions:
> > 
> > an_flow_t * 
> > an_flow_create(void *mem, an_cred_t *cred, an_cpuspec_t *cspec,
> > 		an_memspec_t *mspec, an_flowinit_func_t init, 
> > 		void *initarg, an_flowterm_func_t term)
> > 
> > 
> > Each of these types are complex structures in C. How do I represent these
> > in OCaml. Is it useful to use classes and methods? Or do I use abstract
> > types to represent them ?
> > 
> > An example of one of these structures is given below:
> > 
> > [...]
> > I would be grateful for any help.
> > 
> > Thanks
> > Ravi
> > 
> 
> Did you have a look a Camlidl (http://pauillac.inria.fr/caml/camlidl) ?
> It can generate rather complex stub code for you.
> 
> Jocelyn
> 
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