On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 6:30 PM, Kevin Smith k2msmith@gmail.com wrote:
I need an interface from SBCL to a a set of "C" function in the OpenCV library. I don't think there is a bindings package available for opencv, so I need to carve my own.
Ryan Davis seems to have plans to write such a bindings package as well, and he has some prototype code over here: http://github.com/ryepup/cl-opencv. Perhaps you should get in touch with him.
Should I go with the option of trying to use SWIG to generate some bindings or should I just dig into CFFI and hand-create the bindings that I need ?
I personally prefer to write the FFI definitions as I go along, but this is not always practical if the library is too big and/or changes very often.
Also if anyone can send me references to any examples, I would appreciate.
CFFI's User Manual has a nice tutorial and its reference chapters also have a bunch of small examples. cl-opengl, iolib, and osicat are some libraries that use CFFI.
Hope that helps,