https://github.com/rrthomas/mork

Automatic C bindings for Lua, using alien and ctypesgen-json
https://github.com/rrthomas/mork

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Automatic C bindings for Lua, using alien and ctypesgen-json

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/rrthomas/mork
• Owner: rrthomas
• Created: 2011-05-19T20:45:26.000Z (about 15 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2020-03-19T17:32:31.000Z (about 6 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-04-02T18:55:59.712Z (about 1 year ago)
• Language: Lua
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• Size: 6.84 KB
• Stars: 16
• Watchers: 3
• Forks: 2
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README

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                                 mork

                                 ----

                (c) Reuben Thomas 2011 

                 https://github.com/rrthomas/mork

Mork provides automatic C bindings for Lua using ctypesgen-json and

alien. (Mork is a friendly alien. However, it cannot drink through its

fingers. Indeed, it does not have fingers. It is a shallow analogy.)

Mork is distributed under the MIT License, like Lua itself.

alien is a libffi binding for Lua: http://mascarenhas.github.com/alien/

ctypesgen-json turns C headers into JSON for use with libffi:

http://code.google.com/p/ctypesgen/

It might be better to use cparser: http://sourceforge.net/projects/cparser/

Usage

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First, turn a header file into JSON using ctypesgen-json:

$ ctypesgen.py --all-headers --builtin-symbols --output-language=json /usr/include/foo.h -o foo.json

Then in Lua, Mork slurps up the JSON and generates alien bindings on

the fly, returning a module:

require "mork"

require "json"

module = mork.bind (json.decode (io.open ("foo.json"):read ("*a")))