Update: CL-CXX-JIT is the new project to make the process easier example: (from '("<cmath>") 'import '("static_cast<double(*)(double)>(std::sin)" . "cpp-sin")), then can be called with(cpp-sin 0d0).

CL-CXX - Common Lisp wrappers for C++

This library provides an interface to C++ from lisp. It was inspired by Julia's libcxxwrap, and that projects documentation is a good reference for the architecture and ideas in this library.

Prerequisites

• CLCXX is installed

Installation

Clone into home/common-lisp directory. Then asdf:test-system "cxx"

Supported Types

• Fundamental types
• Pointers
• Classes can add public members and functions
• POD
• functions, std::function and lambda

A Small Example

First you will need to create a C++ glue library that CFF will use when calling C++ functions from Lisp. Compile the code below as a shared library say, libtest.so or libtest.dylib. The commands to do this will vary by compiler and operating system. For testing, it is always good to put the library in the same directory as the lisp code, and ensure that you set the current working directory in your Lisp image. CFFI can take some fiddling to find all the dependencies. This is not unique to this project, all Lisp C/C++ bindings with CFFI have the same requirements.

The C++ Side of the Equation

#include <string>
#include "clcxx/clcxx.hpp"

std::string greet() { return "Hello, World"; }
int Int(int x) { return x + 100; }
float Float(float y) { return y + 100.34; }
auto gr(std::complex<float> x) { return x; }
std::string hi(char* s) { return std::string("hi, " + std::string(s)); }
void ref_int(int& x) { x += 30; }
void ref_class(xx& x) { x.y = 1000000; }
class xx {
 public:
  xx(int xx, int yy) : y(yy), x(xx) {}
  std::string greet() { return "Hello, World"; }
  int y;
  int x;
};

CLCXX_PACKAGE TEST(clcxx::Package& pack) {
  pack.defun("hi", &hi);
  pack.defun("test-int", &Int);
  pack.defun("greet", &greet);
  pack.defun("test-float", &Float);
  pack.defun("test-complex", &gr);
  pack.defun("ref-int", &ref_int);
  pack.defun("ref-class", &ref_class);
  pack.defclass<xx, false>("xx")
      .member("y", &xx::y)
      .defmethod("foo", &xx::greet)
      .constructor<int, int>();
}

The Lisp Side of Things

You should walk through the commands below in the REPL to get an idea of how the bindings work. Before you start, ensure you have the dependencies loaded:

(ql:quickload "cffi")
(ql:quickload "cxx")

(defpackage cxx/test
  (:use :cl))
(in-package :cxx/test)

;;; Change the pathname to match that of your system.
(pushnew (merge-pathnames #p"ros/lisp-demo/lib/" (user-homedir-pathname))
         cffi:*foreign-library-directories*
         :test #'equal)

(cffi:define-foreign-library my-lib
  (t (:default "libtest")))

(cffi:use-foreign-library my-lib)

(cxx:init)

(cxx:add-package "TEST" "TEST")

(test:greet)

(test:hi "Cxx")

Usage

See test files or the cl-cxx-eigen project for further examples.

NOTE

Tested on:

• SBCL 1.4.5 on debian
• CCL 1.12 on MacOS 10.13.6

TODO

• test functions
• classes
• references
• Smart pointers
• Tuple
• benchmark

Copyright

Copyright (c) 2018 Islam Omar ([email protected])

License

Licensed under the MIT License.