JS-CTYPES Status

Unfortunately, the js-ctypes project got back-burnered for a while. Fortunately, some great contributors swooped in and landed some really nice bits. Fredrik Larsson helped out on some Linux problems (bug 416119), filled in ANSI string support (bug 416229) and setup an xpcshell test framework (bug 427286).

The Atul Varma came to my rescue by adding support for OS X and fixing a small bug (bug 429063). Atul also added build instructions to the wiki. Brahmana found a bug too and posted a patch (bug 413783).

We are getting pretty close to a usable library. The next step is struct support. The current plan is to do something like this:

// define the struct
var POINT = [{"x": INT32}, {"y": INT32}];

// use the struct when declaring the function call
var pointsEqual = library.declare("PointsEqual", STDCALL, BOOLEAN, POINT, POINT);

// initialize objects that looks like POINT
var pt1 = {"x": 10, "y": 20};
var pt2 = {"x": 20, "y": 20};
var result = pointsEqual(pt1, pt2);

// "result" should be false :)

The wiki page has bugzilla and SVN information too. Feedback welcome. Patches welcome!