I have contributed a patch to Autoconf’s Erlang-related macros, adapted from a patch sent to me by Ruslan Babayev. The AC_ERLANG_CHECK_LIB macro has been modified to set the ERLANG_LIB_VER_library variable when checking for the presence of a library library. The macro sets it to the version number of the library, in addition to setting the … [Read more…]
The development of gtknode, the Erlang binding for the GTK+ library, is now hosted as a Google Code project. gtknode was previously included in the Jungerl collection of Erlang code on Sourceforge. The version on Google Code (version 0.15) is the latest version from Mats Cronqvist, the author of gtknode. This version includes my improvements … [Read more…]
I have made the first official release of Dryverl: Dryverl version 0.1. An example “Hello World” Erlang-to-C binding’s specification and test program are included in that release. I have spent my afternoon finishing the configuration and build process based on GNU Autoconf, Automake and Libtools: the dryverl-0.1.tar.gz archive file is built automatically from the SVN … [Read more…]
I officially announce the creation of the Dryverl project. Dryverl is an Erlang-to-C binding “assembly language”. Dryverl lets you specify and control in details all the steps of a Erlang-to-C function call, while hiding implementation details and making it much easier to implement a binding than writing it by hand. The Dryverl “compiler” is implemented … [Read more…]
Some time ago, Libroscope (a news site in French about Free Software) published a benchmark (in French) of the openness of 23 software projects. They defined and used the following 10 non-technical criteria: Does the project use aggressive marketing methods? (e.g.: make a Google search and compare the number of advertising pages with the number … [Read more…]
Tom version 2.3 has just been released. Tom is an excellent pattern matching compiler that generates Java™ code to match terms in the form of graphs of Java™ objects. Tom is free software, and released under the GPL. This reminded me that about one year ago I wrote a Tom specification for Erlang/OTP‘s Jinterface library, … [Read more…]
I have updated my previous patch to EDTK 1.1. This new patch version corrects the following new bugs that I have found: it allows to have several arguments that are mapped values in the same map (i.e. the behaviour is now correct when several <arg/>s have the same value of the valmap_name attribute, in the same … [Read more…]
I am creating an Erlang-binding for the GSS API version 2.1 (IETF‘s RFC 2743 and RFC 2744). I am wrapping the GSS API C-binding functions in an Erlang port driver. The purpose is to be able to use GSS API implementations such as MIT Kerberos, Heimdal, GNU Shishi and Globus’ GSI in Erlang programs. And … [Read more…]
My Autoconf macros for Erlang applications configuration have been committed intoAutoconf’s CVS repository. The final macros are a little different from my original proposal: all macros now have the AC_ERLANG_ prefix, instead of the ERLANG_ prefix. These macros will be included in the next release of Autoconf (version 2.95c). Until this version is released, one … [Read more…]
I have refactored gtkNode, the Erlang interface to GTK+ 2, which I have been “playing with” recently. The most significant is that I have used GNU Autoconf and Automake to redo the configuration and build framework. I have used my Autoconf macros for Erlang in gtkNode’s configure.ac configuration file, to simplify configuration. To compile the source … [Read more…]