[fpc-pascal]GNU Scientific Library

[Ramom Flores d'as Seixas]

Hi:

    I'm trying to use the Gnu Scientific Library (GSL) that is written in "C".  
Unfortunately my knowledge of C is very limited. This library looks like very 
interesting and has a lot of functions, but it has also a lot of nested 
include  files with a myriad of type definitions. So I'm asking your help.

Are there any document explaining how to translate .h files to units? or 
perhaps a C -> Pascal tutorial?

I know the h2pas tool, and I have used it, but I have some dudes how to use
it. Following are some of them:

1) How many *.h files need to be translated? 
 First I would like to use the minimization stuff that is presented in
the file: "gsl_multimin.h", and in this file there are 5 includes:
one standard, stdlib.h and for specific of gsl: gsl_math.h, gsl_vector.h,
gsl_matrix.h, and gsl_min.h. But these include files call others include 
files, for example gsl_math.h calls math.h (C standard), gsl_sys.h, 
gsl_machine.h, gsl_precision.h, gsl_nan.h and gsl_pow_int.h. 

So translate all the nested include files is a titanic work, that exceeds my
forces. It is possible just translate some of them, which ones?


2) How translate "general" arrays? (Arrays without index).
For example in the file gsl_precision.h appears the following declaration:
        extern const double gsl_prec_eps[ ];
that is translated by h2pas as:
        gsl_prec_eps : array of double;cvar;external;
but I think this declaration is not correct pascal.     

3) What is the equivalent type of "size_t" in pascal? (I think that is a 
integer type).


Cheers
        Ramom