ABI compatible bindings for libffi

[sjmackenzie]

Problem:
libffi is used by many languages to foreign function interface into C libraries. You'll probably find libffi is not compatible with nupic.core's C++ format. Thus you'll not get the portability needed for nupic.core to become ubiquitous.

Solution:
Make a C wrapper around nupic.core which will expose an ABI compatible format.

[utensil]

👍

This is what I dreamed for a long time.

[breznak]

isn't this what we use swig for, interfacing to other languages? Maybe with some extra work https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8303801/how-can-i-generate-c-wrappers-over-c-api-using-swig
swig can expose C++ to C.

[rhyolight]

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