<div dir="ltr"><div>Looks like Xamarin has just publicly released the work they have been doing for the past 6 months surrounding C++ interop to replace Cxxi. It was just announced at MonkeySpace conference. Based on github commits, it looks like it has been very actively developed by someone dedicated full-time to this effort.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Miguel's MonkeySpace presentation describing CppSharp:</div><br><div><a href="http://www.slideshare.net/migueldeicaza/monkey-space-2013">http://www.slideshare.net/migueldeicaza/monkey-space-2013</a><br>
</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>github repo:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://github.com/tritao/CppSharp">https://github.com/tritao/CppSharp</a><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 2:55 PM, Dimitar Dobrev <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dpldobrev@yahoo.com" target="_blank">dpldobrev@yahoo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div><div style="font-size:12pt;font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif"><br><div><span> Thank you for your suggestion. However, Qt-Jambi</span> (<a href="http://qt-jambi.org/" target="_blank">http://qt-jambi.org/</a>) looks abandoned. There already was an attempt to use it through IKVM here - <a href="http://code.google.com/p/qt4dotnet/" target="_blank">http://code.google.com/p/qt4dotnet/</a> - also abandoned. Even if one were to revive it, its dependency on the seemingly dead Qt-Jambi kills any future it might have. Besides, I believe performance would be worse than with a SWIG-based solution.</div>
<div><br></div><div style="font-style:normal;font-size:16px;background-color:transparent;font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif"><span> Regards,</span></div><div style="font-style:normal;font-size:16px;background-color:transparent;font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif">
<span> Dimitar</span><span><br></span></div><div class="hm HOEnZb"><div><br></div> </div><div style="font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:12pt"><div class="hm HOEnZb"> </div><div style="font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:12pt">
<div class="hm HOEnZb"> </div><div dir="ltr"><div class="hm HOEnZb"> <hr size="1"> </div><font face="Arial"><div class="hm HOEnZb"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold">From:</span></b> james <<a href="mailto:james@mansionfamily.plus.com" target="_blank">james@mansionfamily.plus.com</a>><br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">To:</span></b> Dimitar Dobrev <<a href="mailto:dpldobrev@yahoo.com" target="_blank">dpldobrev@yahoo.com</a>>; KDE bindings for other programming languages <<a href="mailto:kde-bindings@kde.org" target="_blank">kde-bindings@kde.org</a>> <br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Sent:</span></b> Friday, July 12, 2013 9:32 PM</div><div><div class="h5"><br> <b><span style="font-weight:bold">Subject:</span></b> Re: [Kde-bindings] Qt & SWIG<br> </div></div></font> </div>
<div><div class="h5"> <div><br><div>
<div>
<div>What is Qt-Jambi doing, or are they in
difficulty too?<br>
<br>
Qt seems to shed bindings like they are going out of fashion.<br>
<br>
I can imagine that's no problem for Phil with PySide, bit perhaps
a little less NIH elsewhere would work.<br>
<br>
I mean - maybe the Qt-Jambi system could be extended? Even if it
means going through IKVM?<br>
<br>
Or maybe the PySide stuff could be reused - even if the glue is
IronPython?<br>
<br>
James<br>
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On 12/07/2013 13:41, Dimitar Dobrev wrote:<br>
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Hello, Ruth,</span></div>
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<div style="font-style:normal;font-size:16px;background-color:transparent;font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif"><span> Glad
to hear from you again. I am sorry Qyoto didn't work out
for you but I do agree SWIG would be a better </span><span>solution, with better performance indeed. I'll
try to find free time to work on it as soon as possible.
However, I cannot make any promise yet.</span></div>
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<div style="font-style:normal;font-size:16px;background-color:transparent;font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif"><span> Best
regards,</span></div>
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Dimitar</span><span><br>
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Ivimey-Cook <a rel="nofollow" href="mailto:ruth@ivimey.org" target="_blank"><ruth@ivimey.org></a><br>
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Re: [Kde-bindings] Qt & SWIG<br>
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<div>Dimitar
and others,<br>
<br>
I evaluated using Qyoto for a project I'm working
on and - with regret for all the hard work Dimitar
had obviously put in - decided against it, both
because it was buggy and because it was very slow.
When I investigated the speed issue SMOKE relies
on textual matching of function signatures to call
functions. Admittedly the hashes, once matched,
are hashed and cached, but still... It also
involved at least 2 transitions from managed to
unmanaged code, which IIRC are expensive in
themselves. <br>
<br>
People I know have used SWIG to good effect but I
have no personal experience.<br>
<br>
A statically linked shim file (not a DLL, if
possible) - i.e. a set of functions coded in
managed code that each make an unmanaged call to
the "real" function would be the way I would
expect. Coding this by hand would be painful, so a
program to generate them is the obvious response.
I believe this is the SWIG way.<br>
<br>
If it were possible I would look into using
something like an XML file containing the
interface definition, maybe itself initially
generated from the .h files, and which can then be
adapted and enhanced to improve it. If the Qt
and/or SWIG community were receptive this might
become something people would support generally -
e.g. including PyQt et al. - which would benefit
everyone.<br>
<br>
HTH<br>
Ruth<br>
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Dimitar Dobrev wrote:<br>
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</span><span> Dylan,<br>
<br>
</span><span> </span><span>Thank you for your
suggestion. </span>I know about CXXI but it
wouldn't be my choice for the following reasons:<br>
<span> 1. It is both
incomplete and abandoned;</span><span><br>
</span><span> 2. It
relies on Reflection.Emit which is not
supported on iOS; Qt will soon officially run
on iOS and it'd be nice if the bindings</span><span> worked on that
platform too.<br>
<br>
</span><span>
Regards,<br>
</span><span>
Dimitar</span><span>
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Thursday, July 11, 2013 9:06 PM<br>
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Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 10:25 AM, Gour <span dir="ltr"><<a rel="nofollow" href="mailto:gour@atmarama.net" target="_blank">gour@atmarama.net</a>></span>
wrote:<br>
<blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> On Thu, 11
Jul 2013 06:31:43 -0700 (PDT)<br>
Dimitar Dobrev <<a rel="nofollow" href="mailto:dpldobrev@yahoo.com" target="_blank">dpldobrev@yahoo.com</a>>
wrote:<br>
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> 3. I don't want to have
anything to do with SMOKE any more
so if you'd<br>
> like to take this path, you'd
be on your own.<br>
<br>
Isn't it pity that there is no more
interest in having Qt bindings for<br>
the .NET/Mono? :-(<br>
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There was an announcement some years
back on one of the Mono blogs about an
interop layer for C++ (<a rel="nofollow" href="https://github.com/mono/cxxi" target="_blank">https://github.com/mono/cxxi</a>).
It was never mentioned again and I think
a grue ate it, but it looked like a
really nice set of libraries if someone
maintained it beyond the initial proof
of concept. I also don't know how
tightly it is tied to Mono itself and if
a cross-platform version could be done
with it.<br>
<br>
Looking at the code, they were also
using Qt as the example in their POC.<br>
<br>
- Dylan<br>
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