Subj : jsgen-a spidermonkey wrapper/code generator, comments?
To   : netscape.public.mozilla.jseng
From : Marcello Bastea-Forte <marcello@TEHSPAMcellosoft.com>
Date : Thu Dec 18 2003 02:50 pm

Hey all,

I've recently been working with spidermonkey as a scripting language for 
game development, and after looking at the different "tutorials" on 
interfacing between C++/JavaScript on mozilla.org and elsewhere, I 
decided to write a little program that does all the interfacing for you.

In a nutshell it takes a C++ header file with a class definition in it, 
and generates code that you can #include into your .h and .cpp for the 
class that wraps all marked functions, variables, and constructors.

I've been working on it for the past couple days, and finally have a 
version worth using.

I put the readme online:
http://www.cs.unm.edu/~cello/jsgen/

and you can download it here:
http://www.cs.unm.edu/~cello/jsgen/download/

Feature-wise, I think it's fairly complete, I still don't quite 
understand all the spidermonkey systems, so it's probably lacking in 
things I'm not familiar with.

I haven't tested it with my own actual game code yet, but that's the 
next step.  It seems to work well enough with the test classes I made.

So if you have any suggestions, comments, input, criticism, please let 
me know. :-)

Also, I've only tested this on windows, although the program itself uses 
all standard C++ classes (I think), so if anyone gets it to work on 
something else, let me know.

Thanks,

Marcello

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