# haxe-ui
- r
rhythmic-librarian-79625
12/10/2021, 2:58 PMThe precompiled headers make use of static or shared libraries while the header file is used to actually call these functions - r
rhythmic-librarian-79625
12/10/2021, 2:59 PMIt gets handled via linking - b
billions-carpenter-3485
12/10/2021, 3:01 PMI just don't have a plan at the moment xD - r
rhythmic-librarian-79625
12/10/2021, 3:02 PMOh, well you can do as I've described or just compile the C sources with your application and hxcpp - b
bright-gpu-74537
12/10/2021, 3:03 PMhxcpp externs will certainly be "pretty simple" for portaudio... HL too im sure is doable, but i have no direct experience with them - b
billions-carpenter-3485
12/10/2021, 3:05 PMI think portaudio (portable audio) is simple because it's more like a good written wrapper without difficult build processes. But first of all I need to get started and understand the garbage collection of hxcpp and how to work with it if you use externs - b
billions-carpenter-3485
12/10/2021, 3:06 PMOr I can just cry? xD - r
rhythmic-librarian-79625
12/10/2021, 3:07 PMFight on champ! - b
bright-gpu-74537
12/10/2021, 3:08 PMyeah, defo appreciate its mainly wrapping call params - so its really not that big of a deal, but defo more effort than just maintaining a list of function signatures... - r
rhythmic-librarian-79625
12/10/2021, 3:09 PMSomeone could create a generator for hashlink wrapper calls that then call the actual C function - b
bright-gpu-74537
12/10/2021, 3:09 PMwas defo thinking the same thing - p
powerful-morning-89
12/10/2021, 3:10 PMThat's also on my to do list. But I'd have to write externs for libclang first, because I have no intention of writing a C parser. - b
bright-gpu-74537
12/10/2021, 3:10 PMwill experiment with raylib when i get 5 mins - r
rhythmic-librarian-79625
12/10/2021, 3:10 PMHmm fair point, C is notoriously hard to parse sadly - p
powerful-morning-89
12/10/2021, 3:10 PMAnd I don't want to deal with clang's json output either tbh. - b
bright-gpu-74537
12/10/2021, 3:11 PMcouldnt you take the extern function def as "golden" and work from that? - b
bright-gpu-74537
12/10/2021, 3:11 PM(with some metadata) - p
powerful-morning-89
12/10/2021, 3:11 PMIe the ammer approach. But then the programmer still has to write one set of externs. The goal would be to autogenerate everything, both the haxe side and the C glue. - b
billions-carpenter-3485
12/10/2021, 3:11 PMah i prefer to cry xD - b
bright-gpu-74537
12/10/2021, 3:12 PMso you mean you give it a C lib and it generates the extern .hx and the C glue? Thats pretty nifty - p
powerful-morning-89
12/10/2021, 3:13 PMThe goal would be to have the same for haxe. But for eg vulkan or wayland, dedicated generators would be better since they have xml files with more info than the C headers. - b
bright-gpu-74537
12/10/2021, 3:14 PMvery nice idea though... if that existed now, we wouldnt be having this conversation about PortAudio 🙂 - b
billions-carpenter-3485
12/10/2021, 3:15 PMwhen will you have it ready? :P - p
powerful-morning-89
12/10/2021, 3:16 PMUh... I have a lot of things on my TODO list, so... I don't know. - p
powerful-morning-89
12/10/2021, 3:16 PMI should just write that list down and then finish things one by one instead of jumping between projects all the time. - b
billions-carpenter-3485
12/10/2021, 3:16 PMso tomorrow? xD - p
powerful-morning-89
12/10/2021, 3:17 PMIf you have a machine that can freeze time. - b
billions-carpenter-3485
12/10/2021, 3:20 PMWhen you freeze something to the absolute 0 point?