Nim wrapping C

Thu, 16 Oct 2014 00:00:00 +0000

Nim has all the language mechanisms needed to smoothly interoperate with C and C++. The rather large collection of wrapped C libraries (and that’s only those in the standard libs) is also a testament to this fact. In this article I explain my personal findings testing out the waters of wrapping a simple C library.

The basic approach to wrapping a simple C library is:

Install Nim.
Install c2nim using Babel or manually clone c2nim from github and build it.
Use c2nim to translate the C header file(s) to a so called Nim wrapper.
Make a small test showing it works.
Write a so called “impure” intermediary library that uses the wrapper (next article)
Make a test green and declare Victory (next article)

Okidoki… (roll up sleeves)

HyperDex on Ubuntu 12.10 from source

Wed, 16 Jan 2013 00:00:00 +0000

So ok, I really like looking at new interesting NoSQL databases. Up until yesterday I felt Riak was the most interesting one (have also coauthored Phriak - a Riak binding for Pharo Smalltalk ) but after an evening of discussing choices of key/value backends for the Oak project I decided to “google a bit” and stumbled upon HyperDex .

HyperDex on Roads Less Taken

Nim wrapping C

HyperDex on Ubuntu 12.10 from source