Automagical C header file bindings?

From: Brandon J. Van Every (try_vanevery_at_mycompanyname_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 03/29/05 

Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2005 02:31:40 -0800

Is there any Scheme or Lisp technology that will read a pile of *.h files
and generate the appropriate bindings from C to Scheme or Lisp, without user
intervention? The scope of *.h binding I'm interested in is:

- automagically generate OpenGL bindings
- automagically generate SDL (Simple DirectMedia Layer) bindings
http://www.libsdl.org

At least these are, realistically speaking, the things I'd like to create
Scheme or Lisp bindings for. If you say "bindings for these already exist,"
the idea of automagically generating the binding is still important. For
instance, OpenGL will go to 2.0 this year. SDL also undergoes change.

I have a small experience now with Bigloo Scheme's Cigloo utility. It can
help generate a binding, but it can't just suck in arbitrary *.h files and
produce good output. In fact it appears to be choking on simple things like
#---*/ comments that are split upon a line. Also more complex things; the
point is, it's potentially useful, but not automagical. Thought I'd ask if
there's anything automagical or nearly so.

I suppose there's SWIG but I'm wondering if there's anything else. In
particular, something that is only interested in Scheme <--> C or Lisp <-->
C, and thereby has a simpler, more robust, or more automagical
implementation than SWIG. 

-- 
Cheers,                     www.indiegamedesign.com
Brandon Van Every           Seattle, WA
"The pioneer is the one with the arrows in his back."
                          - anonymous entrepreneur

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