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C++ function binding

Started by Jimfing Mar 29, 2005 at 2:22 PM 1 reply 1.4k views

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Mar 29, 2005 at 2:22 PM

Hi guys - just found an interesting paper on binding C++ functions for scripting languages: http://www.drizzle.com/~scottb/gdc/fubi-paper.htm It uses the DLL exports from VC++ and name-unmangling to create a large table of all the functions which should be availible to the scripts. Pretty cool, although not cross-platform. Maybe someone would find it usefull...

Toes

Mar 29, 2005 at 7:41 PM

That's exactly how CPB that does function bindings for LUA. It doesn't use dbghelp though, it uses the more up to date DIA SDK, which was released shortly after Scott wrote that paper.

Thomas

http://www.thomasandamy.com/projects/CPB

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Apr 1, 2005 at 1:10 PM

I do the exact same thing in a language I'm working on and it works great. However, I directly read out of the export table from the Portable Executable file (in memory) which the library is loaded from.

I imagine a similar thing can be done on any platform that supports dynamic libraries... which is all major ones, if I'm not mistaken.

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