(foreign c)

(foreign c) is a C foreign function interface (FFI) library for R7RS. It is portable in the sense that it supports multiple implementations, as opposed to being portable by conforming to some specification.

The new readme is a work in progress.

Implementation table

Primitives 1

	c-size-of	c-bytevector-u8-set!	c-bytevector-u8-ref	define-c-library	c-bytevector?	define-c-procedure
Chibi	X	X	X	X	X	X
Chicken	X	X	X	X	X	X
Gauche	X	X	X	X	X	X
Guile	X	X	X	X	X	X
Kawa	X	X	X	X	X	X
Mosh	X	X	X	X	X	X
Racket	X	X	X	X	X	X
Saggittarius	X	X	X	X	X	X
Stklos	X	X	X	X	X	X
Ypsilon	X	X	X	X	X	X

Primitives 2

	define-c-callback
Chibi
Chicken	X
Gauche
Guile	X
Kawa
Mosh	X
Racket	X
Saggittarius	X
Stklos
Ypsilon	X

Test files pass

	primitives.scm	addressof.scm	callback.scm
Chibi	X	X
Chicken	X	X	X
Gauche	X	X
Guile	X	X	X
Kawa	X	X
Mosh	X	X
Racket	X
Saggittarius	X	X	X
Stklos	X	X
Ypsilon	X	X

Documentation

Types

Types are given as symbols, for example ’int8 or ’pointer.

int8
uint8
int16
uint16
int32
uint32
int64
uint64
char
unsigned-char
short
unsigned-short
int
unsigned-int
long
unsigned-long
float
double
pointer
callback
- Callback function

Primitives

(c-type-size type)

Returns the size of given C type.

(define-c-library scheme-name headers object-name options) define-c-procedure define-c-callback c-bytevector? c-bytevector-u8-set! c-bytevector-u8-ref c-bytevector-pointer-set! c-bytevector-pointer-ref

c-bytevector

make-c-bytevector make-c-null c-null? c-free native-endianness c-bytevector-s8-set! c-bytevector-s8-ref c-bytevector-s16-set! c-bytevector-s16-ref c-bytevector-s16-native-set! c-bytevector-s16-native-ref c-bytevector-u16-set! c-bytevector-u16-ref c-bytevector-u16-native-set! c-bytevector-u16-native-ref c-bytevector-s32-set! c-bytevector-s32-ref c-bytevector-s32-native-set! c-bytevector-s32-native-ref c-bytevector-u32-set! c-bytevector-u32-ref c-bytevector-u32-native-set! c-bytevector-u32-native-ref c-bytevector-s64-set! c-bytevector-s64-ref c-bytevector-s64-native-set! c-bytevector-s64-native-ref c-bytevector-u64-set! c-bytevector-u64-ref c-bytevector-u64-native-set! c-bytevector-u64-native-ref c-bytevector-sint-set! c-bytevector-sint-ref c-bytevector-uint-set! c-bytevector-uint-ref c-bytevector-ieee-single-set! c-bytevector-ieee-single-native-set! c-bytevector-ieee-single-ref c-bytevector-ieee-single-native-ref c-bytevector-ieee-double-set! c-bytevector-ieee-double-native-set! c-bytevector-ieee-double-ref c-bytevector-ieee-double-native-ref bytevector->c-bytevector c-bytevector->bytevector call-with-address-of

string->c-utf8 c-utf8->string