I'm a Python veteran, but haven't dabbled much in C. After half a day of not finding anything on the internet that works for me, I thought I would ask here and get the help I need. What I want to ...

I've found that Elixir programs can run C code either via NIFs (native implemented functions) or via OS-level ports. Having read those and similar links, I'm not a hundred percent clear on when to ...

I have a C library that uses a struct of function pointers for callbacks. The callbacks will be called from C code. extern "C" { typedef struct callbacks_t { void (*foo) (const char*); int (*bar...

Does there exist a symbolic computation library written pure C? Symbolic computation as in manipulating mathematical equations in symbolic form. I know there is Mathematica, and Sympy. But, I am ...

I am using SWIG to wrap a function that returns an std::map in PHP. In the PHP code, I need to iterate over the elements of the map. Thw SWIG library provides support for std::map with the std_ma...

I am writing a PHP wrapper for a C++ library using SWIG, but I am having trouble using a structure with an instance of a template type as a data member. Suppose I have the following header file: ...

I'm looking for a way to extend (i.e. add new members to a type using the %extend directive) a type that is defined in the library file itself while the header files of the library provide only a f...

I know that there are a lot of CUDA language bindings, such as PyCUDA, but are there any good bindings for .Net? The only one I've seen is this one, but I'd like to know if there are any others.

My good friend, Wikipedia, didn't give me a very good response to that question. So: What are language bindings? How do they work? Specifically accessing functions from code written in language...