CHIBI-FFI(1)

💖 CHIBI-FFI(1) 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the General Commands Manual energy of chibi-ffi ✨

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🌸 NAME 🌸

chibi-ffi — generate C from Scheme stub files 🦋

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

chibi-ffi [-c] [-f cflags] input.stub [output.c]

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🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

so basically chibi-ffi reads the C function FFI definitions out of an input file 📖 and then outputs the appropriate C wrappers into a file that has the same base name, just with the .c extension (unless you tell it otherwise, bestie, then it does what you say 💅).

then you can take that C file and compile it into a shared library, like:

chibi-ffi file.stub
cc -fPIC -shared file.c -lchibi-scheme

if you pass the -c option it literally attempts compiling the generated C code for you in one step — main character behavior fr fr 👑. in that case, you can hand it extra flags for the C compiler with the -f option 🫶

the FFI syntax itself is described in the manual over at /usr/share/doc/chibi-scheme/chibi.html, in the "C FFI" section 📚

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🌈 AUTHORS 🌈

Alex Shinn 💜

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🐛 REPORTING BUGS 🐛

Please report bugs on Github 🫡

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👀 SEE ALSO 👀

chibi-scheme(1) 💫

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ngl this one's short and sweet and we ate 💅 no cap

and that's a wrap bestie!! this was chibi-ffi from 0.9 (fluorine), dated 2020-08-08 🎀✨ bye icon 🦋💖