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+ffi = require 'ffi'
+
+-- load neovim shared library
+libnvim = ffi.load './build/src/libnvim-test.so'
+
+-- Luajit ffi parser only understands function signatures.
+-- This helper function normalizes headers, passes to ffi and returns the
+-- library pointer
+cimport = (path) ->
+  -- Can't parse some of vim types, perhaps need to define those before
+  -- automatically importing to ffi
+
+  -- header_file = io.open path, 'rb'
+  -- header = header_file\read '*a'
+  -- header_file.close!
+  -- header = string.gsub header, '#include[^\n]*\n', ''
+  -- header = string.gsub header, '#ifndef[^\n]*\n', ''
+  -- header = string.gsub header, '#define[^\n]*\n', ''
+  -- header = string.gsub header, '#endif[^\n]*\n', ''
+  -- ffi.cdef header
+
+  return libnvim
+
+-- take a pointer to a C-allocated string and return an interned
+-- version while also freeing the memory
+internalize = (cdata) ->
+  ffi.gc cdata, ffi.C.free
+  return ffi.string cdata
+
+return {
+  cimport: cimport
+  internalize: internalize
+  eq: (expected, actual) -> assert.are.same expected, actual
+  ffi: ffi
+}