jextract and Botan

[Jorn Vernee]

The plan has been to investigate C++ support at some point, but 
short-term the focus lies on finding a useful set of low-level APIs that 
other high-level functionality can be built on top of [1]

Jorn

[1] : 
https://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/panama-dev/2019-April/005197.html

Giorgio Zoppi schreef op 2019-04-22 13:01:
> Dear Jorn,
> ok thanks for the answer. I will proceed in this way. Does the project
> panama any plan to support native c++?
> Best Regards,
> Giorgio.
> 
> El dom., 21 abr. 2019 a las 21:59, Jorn Vernee (<jbvernee at xs4all.nl>)
> escribió:
> 
>> Hi Giorgio,
>> 
>> Please note that jextract does not really support C++ yet. If you
>> want
>> to create bindings for Botan you will have to use the C API for now,
>> 
>> which is also what's used for bindings of other languages it seems
>> [1]
>> 
>> Eye-balling the command you'd need to use, try:
>> 
>> jextract /usr/local/include/botan-2/botan/ffi.h -L
>> /usr/local/lib/ -I
>> /usr/local/include/botan-2/ -l botan-2 -t Botan
>> --record-library-path -o
>> botan2.jar
>> 
>> A jextract of just the header file works for me, but I can not get
>> the
>> build working on my machine, so I can't test the exact command.
>> 
>> Hope this helps,
>> Jorn
>> 
>> [1] :
>> 
> https://github.com/randombit/botan/blob/e21bddd79357f2ad8576fd871d387b722192b847/src/lib/ffi/ffi.h
> 
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