melange is used to generate C-FFI bindings to libraries with a C API by parsing C header files.

melange was originally part of Gwydion Dylan. It has been converted to work with Open Dylan and c-ffi.

Build

Be sure that you cloned this repository recursively or have otherwise initialized and updated the git submodules. This will not build without the submodules present.

dylan-compiler -build parsergen
_build/bin/parsergen melange-core/c-parse.input melange-core/c-parse.dylan
_build/bin/parsergen melange/int-parse.input melange/int-parse.dylan
dylan-compiler -build melange

You should be using Open Dylan 2012.1 or later.

Usage

The documentation for this tool is available at http://opendylan.org/documentation/melange/.