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Add garbage collection support to the chicken module

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defined in the <i>Revised^5 Report on Scheme</i>. Its main
attributes are that it
</p>
<ol>
<li>generates portable C code</li>
<li>includes a customizable interpreter</li>
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CHICKEN support was introduced to SWIG in version 1.3.18. SWIG
relies on some recent additions to CHICKEN, which are only
present in releases of CHICKEN with version number
<strong>greater than or equal to <tt>1.40</tt></strong>.
<br> CHICKEN can be downloaded from <a
href="http://www.call-with-current-continuation.org/">http://www.call-with-current-continuation.org/</a>
<strong>greater than or equal to 1.89</strong>.
CHICKEN can be downloaded from
<a href="http://www.call-with-current-continuation.org/">http://www.call-with-current-continuation.org/</a>
You may want to look at any of the examples in Examples/chicken/
or Examples/GIFPlot/Chicken for the basic steps to run SWIG
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the -chicken option.
</p>
<div class="code">
<div class="shell">
<pre>% swig -chicken example.i</pre>
</div>
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be compiled to C using your system's CHICKEN compiler.
</p>
<div class="code">
<div class="shell">
<pre>% chicken example.scm -output-file oexample.c</pre>
</div>
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the -chicken -c++ option.
</p>
<div class="code">
<div class="shell">
<pre>% swig -chicken -c++ example.i</pre>
</div>
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compiled to C using your system's CHICKEN compiler.
</p>
<div class="code">
<div class="shell">
<pre>% chicken example.scm -output-file oexample.c</pre>
</div>
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in CHICKEN as an identifier ending with
<tt>Foo-Bar</tt>. That is, an underscore is converted
to a dash.
</p>
<br>
<p>
You may control what the CHICKEN identifier will be by using the
<tt>%rename</tt> SWIG directive in the SWIG interface file.
</p>
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in example.i and the C functions being wrapped are in example_impl.c.
</p>
<div class="code">
<div class="shell">
<pre>
$ swig -chicken example.i
$ csc -svk example.scm example_impl.c example_wrap.c
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<p>Again, we can easily use csc to build a binary.</p>
<div class="code">
<div class="shell">
<pre>
$ swig -chicken example.i
$ csc -vk example.scm example_impl.c example_wrap.c test_script.scm -o example
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<li>No exception handling.</li>
<li>No director support.</li>
<li>No support for c++ standard types like std::vector.</li>
<li>No support for automatic garbage collection of wrapped classes and structures. (Planned on adding in SWIG version 1.3.25) </li>
<li>Importing multiple SWIG modules not working with TinyCLOS. (Planned on fixing for 1.3.25) </li>
<li>Problems with complicated function overloading. (Planned on fixing for 1.3.25)</li>
</ul>