Adding simple cffi example.

[jcward]

Known issues to be reviewed:

• hardcoded Linux64 path in hx/build.hxml (copying the ndll to the output directory, not sure how to do this cross-platform in an hxml?)
• directory naming conventions, .gitignore conventions
• added a try/catch on lib load, could remove for the simple example
• tried to structure the Build.xml in a way that would make it easy for a beginner to alter and reuse

[ruby0x1]

Will have a closer look soon:

• ${BINDIR} is a predefined variable to the Windows/Windows64/Mac/Mac64/Linux/Linux64/Android/iPhone/Other folder distinctions, so you can use it instead of explicitly stating them all

[ruby0x1]

• You're not supposed to include the toolchains directly, BuildCommon does this based on your flags

[ruby0x1]

• Does adding $ORIGIN make sense on the dll itself? Isn't that meant to be configured on the haxe target, so the resulting EXE can import it relative - and in my view - would be a user decision to include not a random ndll that is being included to add?

[jcward]

@underscorediscovery I defer to your experience on all counts. I was merely cobbling together something that built, based on Lars' SteamWrap and the old Haxe example (which has minimal build info).

I'll look into applying your notes this afternoon (~8 hours from now.)

[ruby0x1]

No worries!

[larsiusprime]

Nicely done, once we have this we can add a few CFFI Prime examples too. Will be happy to get the build process isolated and explained.

[jcward]

Hmm, when I took out the explicit toolchain includes, I got:

>haxelib run hxcpp Build.xml
Error: Compiler element defined without 'exe' attribute included from:[Build.xml]

Ideas?

WRT $ORING -- oh, that's a Steam thing, right, and should be removed. It allowed SteamWrap to link in the steam libraries. Removed.

[ruby0x1]

The rpath set to ORIGIN allows the executable typically to pick up libraries relative to the binary itself yea.

You aren't specifying a target to hxcpp so it's probably uncertain what to include, but specifying the explicit toolchains is definitely not what you do.

Try for instance haxelib run hxcpp Build.xml -Dlinux or android,mac,windows etc.