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Guile FFI

For all things FFI in the GNU Guile standard library look at: https://www.gnu.org/software/guile/manual/html_node/Foreign-Function-Interface.html

What to point at:

ffi is pointed at the shared objects

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Nyacc FFI helper

Read more about it at: https://www.nongnu.org/nyacc/ffi-help.html.

The nyacc ffi-helper is a C parser (and C preprocessor), plus a converter that turns declarations from include files into Guile ffi wrapper code.

-- mwette

What to point FFI at:

nyacc OTOH is pointed at the header files

-- lilyp

General notes

TAR

libarchive implements all TAR functions and functions for other archive formats.

Wiki:

Most modern tar programs read and write archives in the UStar (Unix Standard TAR[2][10]) format, introduced by the POSIX IEEE P1003.1 standard from 1988.

-- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tar_%28computing%29#UStar_format

Weblinks

https://wiki.osdev.org/USTAR https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tar_%28computing%29 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tar_%28computing%29#UStar_format

Difficulties

difficulties will depend on things like memory management

-- RhodiumToad