This is hopefully the last question on this topic. In C, arrays are zero based and in Julia they are 1 based. Is that going to make a difference when getting values back in a buffer (i.e. Vector) from these ccall function calls?
You need to use the correct syntax on both side to access a specific element but other than that the difference between the two language does not affect how you write the interface code.
OK. I just wanted to double check.
Can you post the code for this? Iāve been meaning to do this to get the accelerometer working for SenseHat.jl.
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Hi Simon. Iāll try to post what Iām working on to my github. It probably wonāt be until Monday (sorry). I saw on your site that it looks like you tried to go down the same route I did with converting the i2c-dev.h to Julia. I got nowhere with that. I was told that Julia didnāt have an equivalent to the C union. So, I have just made a shared library out of i2c-dev.h (made it a C file and stripped the āstatic inlineā from the front of each function). Then, I made a Julia wrapper module to go against that. I have to come up with a way to deploy it so it will compile the source into the shared library on the source machine. My ideas are kind of trying to think ābig pictureā - for different linux based development boards - not just the Pi. Since, they all do GPIO the same through the file system and all do i2c basically the same. You can look at the idea at:
https://github.com/fapplin/Julia_On_Development_Boards
This is something I would like to present at the next Julia conference and maybe present at a Pi conference. Iāll try to get you the code up on this site by the end of the day, but I think you get the gist of what I did.
The files are on my github site. I was trying to make the Julia_I2C module more self-contained, but I just couldnāt get it to work. So, what worked is up there.