Re: [Chicken-users] Chicken foreign type to SWIG type

[felix winkelmann]

On Tue, 14 Dec 2004 21:41:15 +0000, Joel Reymont <address@hidden> wrote:
> Folks,
> 
> Is there a simple way of converting between Chicken's foreign type and a
> SWIG type? I have a library (guichan) that I wrapped with SWIG. This
> library uses SDL. I tried using the SDL egg with it but it does not work.
> 
>[...]
> 
> but SWIG would expect something like _p_SDL_Surface.
> 
> Any suggestions apart from creating another SDL wrapper for Chicken?
> 

Hm, I don't know how SWIG represents it's data. Perhaps John can give us
a suggestion here? Getting the SDL_Surface pointer out of the SDL
surface record is easy, we just have to know how to wrap it.


cheers,
felix