I am writing a libgtop2 wrapper using ffi in order to learn how to use ffi; I am new to ffi, so I have a lot of doubts.

libgtop2 lets get system and processes informations (cpu usage, memory usage, ...).

Here some informations about glibtop_get_cpu:

Library function `glibtop_get_cpu':

     void glibtop_get_cpu (glibtop_cpu *buf);
     void glibtop_get_cpu_l (glibtop *server, glibtop_cpu *buf);

   Declaration of `glibtop_cpu' in `<glibtop/cpu.h>':

     typedef struct _glibtop_cpu     glibtop_cpu;

     struct _glibtop_cpu
     {
         guint64   flags,
             total,
             user,
             nice,
             sys,
             idle,
             iowait,
             irq,
             softirq,
             frequency,
             xcpu_total [GLIBTOP_NCPU],
             xcpu_user [GLIBTOP_NCPU],
             xcpu_nice [GLIBTOP_NCPU],
             xcpu_sys  [GLIBTOP_NCPU],
             xcpu_idle [GLIBTOP_NCPU],
             xcpu_iowait [GLIBTOP_NCPU],
             xcpu_irq [GLIBTOP_NCPU],
             xcpu_softirq [GLIBTOP_NCPU],
             xcpu_flags;
     };

...


Here is what I wrote:

require 'ffi'

class GlibtopCpu < FFI::Struct
  layout :flags,        :guint64,
         :total,        :guint64,
         :user,         :guint64,
         :nice,         :guint64,
         :sys,          :guint64,
         :idle,         :guint64,
         :iowait,       :guint64,
         :irq,          :guint64,
         :softirq,      :guint64,
         :frequency,    :guint64,
         :xcpu_total,   :guint64,
         :xcpu_user,    :guint64,
         :xcpu_nice,    :guint64,
         :xcpu_sys,     :guint64,
         :xcpu_idle,    :guint64,
         :xcpu_iowait,  :guint64,
         :xcpu_irq,     :guint64,
         :xcpu_softirq, :guint64,
         :xcpu_flags,   :guint64
end

module LibGtop
 
  extend FFI::Library
  ffi_lib 'libgtop-2.0'
  attach_function :glibtop_get_cpu, [:pointer], :void

end

# taken from https://github.com/ffi/ffi/wiki/Structs
pointer = FFI::MemoryPointer.new :byte, GlibtopCpu.size, false
a = GlibtopCpu.new pointer
p LibGtop.glibtop_get_cpu(a)

Executing this gives (unsurprisingly) an error:

$ ruby lib/lib_gtop.rb
/home/izietto/.rbenv/versions/2.0.0-p0/lib/ruby/gems/2.0.0/gems/ffi-1.4.0/lib/ffi/types.rb:57:in `find_type': unable to resolve type 'guint64' (TypeError)
    from /home/izietto/.rbenv/versions/2.0.0-p0/lib/ruby/gems/2.0.0/gems/ffi-1.4.0/lib/ffi/struct.rb:316:in `find_type'
    from /home/izietto/.rbenv/versions/2.0.0-p0/lib/ruby/gems/2.0.0/gems/ffi-1.4.0/lib/ffi/struct.rb:309:in `find_field_type'
    from /home/izietto/.rbenv/versions/2.0.0-p0/lib/ruby/gems/2.0.0/gems/ffi-1.4.0/lib/ffi/struct.rb:351:in `array_layout'
    from /home/izietto/.rbenv/versions/2.0.0-p0/lib/ruby/gems/2.0.0/gems/ffi-1.4.0/lib/ffi/struct.rb:261:in `layout'
    from lib/lib_gtop.rb:4:in `<class:GlibtopCpu>'
    from lib/lib_gtop.rb:3:in `<main>'

It doesn't find the guint64 type; how should I declare it?

Also: xcpu_total, xcpu_user are arrays... how should I declare them?

Finally... if someone could give me an explanation and an example of how to implement the bind to glibtop_get_cpu, I would appreciate it very much :) --
 
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