Accessing GCJ binaries from Visual Basic?

[Andrzej Bialecki]

Mohan Embar wrote:
> Hi Andrzej,
> 
> 
>>Now, my question is how should I wrap in VB the return result of 
>>getLink(), or  handle the argument to setLink method to be able to use 
>>them transparently in VB, without re-packaging all results and arguments 
>>into VB primitive types?
> 
> 
> That's the ugly part, unfortunately. I can't quite remember what the
> VB primitive types are (I only have a cursory knowledge of the language),
> but I'm afraid you'll have to cast a Test* to a void*, then an int or a long
> or something like that. The same applies for the setter. To wrap a
> class and its methods, you create a flat C API for the methods
> in that class, the first argument of which is a class instance upcast
> to an int or some other VB pointer type (if VB has one). In the C
> wrapper code, you downcast the int or long handle to an instance
> pointer and proceed from there. Loads of fun.

Uh, oh.. Thanks, but no thanks. I think I'll give up for the moment. I 
expected something like gcjh, which would create a *.bas module, that 
wraps around the ugly details for me ... but now I know better.

Thanks a lot!

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Best regards,
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