<!DOCTYPE html> <html lang="en"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> <meta name="generator" content="AsciiDoc 8.6.8"> <title>MLNLFFIGen</title> <link rel="stylesheet" href="./asciidoc.css" type="text/css"> <link rel="stylesheet" href="./pygments.css" type="text/css"> <script type="text/javascript" src="./asciidoc.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript"> /*<![CDATA[*/ asciidoc.install(); /*]]>*/ </script> <link rel="stylesheet" href="./mlton.css" type="text/css"/> </head> <body class="article"> <div id="banner"> <div id="banner-home"> <a href="./Home">MLton 20130715</a> </div> </div> <div id="header"> <h1>MLNLFFIGen</h1> </div> <div id="content"> <div id="preamble"> <div class="sectionbody"> <div class="paragraph"><p><span class="monospaced">mlnlffigen</span> generates a <a href="MLNLFFI">MLNLFFI</a> binding from a collection of <span class="monospaced">.c</span> files. It is based on the <a href="CKitLibrary">CKitLibrary</a>, which is primarily designed to handle standardized C and thus does not understand many (any?) compiler extensions; however, it attempts to recover from errors when seeing unrecognized definitions.</p></div> <div class="paragraph"><p>In order to work around common gcc extensions, it may be useful to add <span class="monospaced">-cppopt</span> options to the command line; for example <span class="monospaced">-cppopt '-D__extension__'</span> may be occasionally useful. Fortunately, most portable libraries largely avoid the use of these types of extensions in header files.</p></div> <div class="paragraph"><p><span class="monospaced">mlnlffigen</span> will normally not generate bindings for <span class="monospaced">#included</span> files; see <span class="monospaced">-match</span> and <span class="monospaced">-allSU</span> if this is desirable.</p></div> </div> </div> </div> <div id="footnotes"><hr></div> <div id="footer"> <div id="footer-text"> </div> <div id="footer-badges"> </div> </div> </body> </html>