== ProMoT Development Topic: Bindings of libSBML to CommonLisp and Promot ==

These are build by parsing the C-Headers of [http://sbml.org/Software/libSBML libSBML] and translating them
to CommonLisp declarations, that establishes bindings via a 
ForeignFunctionInterface of CommonLisp.

Currently this is done with [http://common-lisp.net/project/asdf/ ASDF], [http://common-lisp.net/project/cparse/ CPARSE] and [http://uffi.b9.com/ UFFI]. CPARSE and UFFI only work for c (using the c-api of libSBML]).

[http://www.swig.org/ SWIG] allows to generate (part of the) bindings. 
currently c++ is (sufficiently) supported by allegro and [http://common-lisp.net/project/cffi/ CFFI].
For clisp and UFFI there are already problems for sbase (abstract class, virtual functions).

Main problems to solve are typemaps especially handling strings.
function overloading (const/ non-const versions/for most bindings const versions are ignored)
dispatch to get the correct return type, (and to call the correct function?)