19 Mar
2014
19 Mar
'14
9:35 a.m.
Mat* cv_imread(String* filename, int flags) { return new Mat(cv::imread(*filename, flags)); }
How is the String type defined in C? Also, why are you wrapping the C++ API rather than the C API?
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Luís Oliveira
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On Mar 19, 2014 3:44 AM, "Joeish W" joeish80829@yahoo.com wrote:
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> I'm trying to recreate a const char* filename parameter for code I have
that needs it...The function I'm wrapping is the OpenCV C++ function
"imread" it is below in the documentation. It is used to read an image(jpg
etc) from a file and return a pointer to it
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>
http://docs.opencv.org/modules/highgui/doc/reading_and_writing_images_and_vi...
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> first I need to wrap in C as below calling the const char* filename
parameter as a String*
> the below cv_imread does compile on ubuntu trusty using g++. And the
function works as intended using g++.
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>
> I wrap in Lisp like this:
>
> (defcfun ("cv_imread" %imread) (:pointer mat)
> (filename (:pointer string*))
> (flags :int))
>
> When I usually create a (:pointer string*) parameter I do it like this
>
> (window-name (foreign-alloc :string :initial-element "IMREAD Example"))
>
> and it works to supply strings that aren't filenames but when I try to
use a filename both absolute and relative paths it fails...it also fails
using double forward slashes in the pathname.
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>
> Any advice is appreciated and btw Emacs /SBCL is my Lisp IDE