Hi,

Following the preview release of cowboy, I am happy to announce
cowboy/glib[1] and its first output: bindings to webkit-gtk.

cowboy/glib is a generator using facilities from cowboy. The goal is not
to replace lablgtk2: it actually relies on it a lot. It was named
"glib" because it generates bindings for glib-based libraries which
follow glib-like conventions.

Last year, I released "ocaml-gir" which used gobject-introspection[2]
(GI) to generate bindings. GI is hopefully two things: a program
outputting an xml description of a glib library, but also the annotation
of these libraries in order to ease the creation of bindings. This
second part can be used by anyone.
I wasn't pleased with the gobject-introspection program (it's very
complex and not documented) but also with my own code. This new project
currently handles most of webkit-gtk: functions, signals, properties
while being cleaner.

The bindings to webkit-gtk are working fairly well and are installed
through findlib, which means they can be easily test and uninstalled.
I've generated sources for webkit-gtk 1.2.3[3] (latest stable) and
1.3.3[4] (latest non-stable).
Of course, it's also possible to generate the bindings on your own
machine (see doc/webkit_gtk).

You'll also need an additional (trivial) wrapper around g_thread_init()
which webkit-gtk requires to be called and which is currently not in
lablgtk2[5] (simply run 'make && make install').

You will find a small test named 'webkit_test.ml' in the 'misc' folder
of cowboy. Its compilation command is given in the comments.

Of course, I will continue working on this project in order to increase
the compatibility with other glib-based libraries.


[1] http://git.ocamlcore.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=cowboy/cowboy.git;a=summary
[2] http://live.gnome.org/GObjectIntrospection
[3] https://forge.ocamlcore.org/frs/download.php/450/lablwebkit-1.2.3.tar.gz
[4] https://forge.ocamlcore.org/frs/download.php/449/lablwebkit-1.3.3.tar.gz
[5] https://forge.ocamlcore.org/frs/download.php/448/g_thread_init.tar.gz

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Adrien Nader