G-Wrap -- A tool for exporting C libraries into Scheme interpreters
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G-Wrap is a tool (and guile library) for generating function wrappers
for inter-language calls. It currently only supports generating Guile
wrappers for C functions. Other languages may be supported in the
future, possibly on both sides.

Installing
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Prerequisites
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* Guile >= 1.6, http://www.gnu.org/software/guile/

* Guile-Lib >= 0.1.2, http://home.gna.org/guile-lib

Instructions
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Run ./configure and then "make" and "make install".
Note:
+ Use option --prefix={where} to tell ./configure where
  to install g-wrap.

Notes about this branch
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This is G-Wrap-TNG (G-Wrap - The Next Generation), a rewrite of
G-Wrap. It's goals are:

* Use GOOPS, for enhanced flexibility and (hoepfully) clearer design.

* Be target-language agnostic; i.e. clean separation of the core and
  e.g. the Guile-specific code. New languages (perhaps even
  non-Schemes) should be easy to add.

* Offer the current (1.3.4+) wrapping API as a compatibility layer.

Status
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Currently, the features from 1.3.4 are present and superceded. It
should be considered "ready for testing". 

Some kind of a compatibility layer still needs to be written.

Authors
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Maintainer:
 Andreas Rottmann  <a.rottmann@gmx.at>

Co-Maintainer:
 Rob Browning <rlb@defaultvalue.org>


Originally written by:
  Christopher Lee <chrislee@ri.cmu.edu>
  http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~chrislee
