Re: C++/OCaml bindings and the C++ std namespace

> Hello.
>
> I managed to bind an C++ library with Objective Caml. cf. below for the
> toploop.
>
> However, I needed to add a function converting a C char * to a C++
> std::string:
>
>> yziquel@seldon:~/svn/main/libmorfo-ocaml$ cat freeling.i
>> %module freeling
>> %{
>>
>> #include "freeling.h"
>>
>> std::string string_of_chars (char * c)
>> {
>>   std:string s (c);
>>   return s;
>> }
>>
>> %}
>>
>> class tokenizer {
>>    public:
>>        /// Constructor
>>        tokenizer(const std::string &);
>>
>>        /// tokenize string with default options
>>        std::list<word> tokenize(const std::string &);
>>        /// tokenize string with default options, tracking offset in given int param.
>>        std::list<word> tokenize(const std::string &, unsigned long &);
>> };
>>
>> std::string string_of_chars (char *);
>
> There doesn't seem to be a standard way to convert an OCaml string to a
> std::string. So I was wondering if there was a way to do something like
>
>> class std::string {
>>   public
>>     string(char *)
>> };
>
> Moreover, it seems to me that the OCaml support in Swig isn't very well
> suited for the needs of OCamlers. The Camlp4 syntax extension is
> something that I really do not like, and the binded code is pretty much
> typed in a way I dislike.
>
> What documentation should I start reading to modify or rewrite the OCaml
> plugin? Or, at least, to see what I could do?
>