racket/collects/scribblings/foreign/define.scrbl
Matthew Flatt 5592dd1489 doc corrections
Merge to 5.0
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#lang scribble/doc
@(require "utils.ss"
(for-label ffi/unsafe/define
ffi/unsafe/alloc))
@title{Defining Bindings}
@defmodule[ffi/unsafe/define]
@defform/subs[(define-ffi-definer define-id ffi-lib-expr
option ...)
([option (code:line #:provide provide-id)
(code:line #:define core-define-id)
(code:line #:default-make-fail default-make-fail-expr)])]{
Binds @scheme[define-id] as a definition form to extract bindings from
the library produced by @scheme[ffi-lib-expr]. The syntax of
@scheme[define-id] is
@specform/subs[(define-id id type-expr
bind-option ...)
([bind-option (code:line #:c-id c-id)
(code:line #:wrap wrap-expr)
(code:line #:make-fail make-fail-expr)
(code:line #:fail fail-expr)])]
A @scheme[define-id] form binds @scheme[id] by extracting a binding
with the name @scheme[c-id] from the library produced by
@scheme[ffi-lib-expr], where @scheme[c-id] defaults to @scheme[id].
The other options support further wrapping and configuration:
@itemize[
@item{Before the extracted result is bound as @scheme[_id], it is
passed to the result of @scheme[_wrap-expr], which defaults to
@scheme[values]. Expressions such as @scheme[(allocator
_delete)] or @scheme[(deallocator)] are useful as
@scheme[_wrap-expr]s.}
@item{The @scheme[#:make-fail] and @scheme[#:fail] options are
mutually exclusive; if @scheme[_make-fail-expr] is provided, it
is applied to @scheme['@#,scheme[_id]] to obtain the last
argument to @scheme[get-ffi-obj]; if @scheme[_fail-expr] is
provided, it is supplied directly as the last argument to
@scheme[get-ffi-obj]. The @scheme[make-not-available] function
is useful as @scheme[_make-fail-expr] to cause a use of
@scheme[_id] to report an error when it is applied if
@scheme[_c-id] was not found in the foreign library.}
]
If @scheme[provide-id] is provided to @scheme[define-ffi-definer], then
@scheme[define-id] also provides its binding using
@scheme[provide-id]. The @scheme[provide-protected] form is usually a
good choice for @scheme[provide-id].
If @scheme[core-define-id] is provided to @scheme[define-ffi-definer],
then @scheme[code-define-id] is used in place of @scheme[define] in
the expansion of @scheme[define-id] for each binding.
If @scheme[default-make-fail-expr] is provided to
@scheme[define-ffi-definer], it serves as the default
@scheme[#:make-fail] value for @scheme[define-id].
For example,
@schemeblock[
(define-ffi-definer define-gtk gtk-lib)
]
binds @scheme[define-gtk] to extract FFI bindings from
@scheme[gtk-lib], so that @scheme[gtk_rc_parse] could be bound as
@schemeblock[
(define-gtk gtk_rc_parse (_fun _path -> _void))
]
If @tt{gtk_rc_parse} is not found, then @scheme[define-gtk] reports an
error immediately. If @scheme[define-gtk] is instead defined with
@schemeblock[
(define-ffi-definer define-gtk gtk-lib
#:default-make-fail make-not-available)
]
then if @tt{gtk_rc_parse} is not found in @scheme[gtk-lib], an error
is reported only when @scheme[gtk_rc_parse] is called.}
@defproc[(make-not-available [name symbol?]) (#:rest list? -> any/c)]{
Returns a procedure that takes any number of arguments and reports an
error message from @scheme[name]. This function is intended for using
with @scheme[#:make-fail] or @scheme[#:default-make-fail] in
@scheme[define-ffi-definer]}
@defform[(provide-protected provide-spec ...)]{
Equivalent to @scheme[(provide (protect-out provide-spec ...))]. The
@scheme[provide-protected] identifier is useful with
@scheme[#:provide] in @scheme[define-ffi-definer].}