From: Matthieu Dubuget <matthieu.dubuget@gmail.com>
To: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Shared libraries with ocamlopt callable from C (without main())?
Date: Fri, 09 Jan 2009 09:21:43 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <49670917.3040103@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <fa75c1020901081445w400a4dcfwd96f914d5af16566@mail.gmail.com>
Ben Aurel a écrit :
> I'm thinking about the possibility to use OCaml as an extension
> language. If I wanted to call a OCaml function from langX I had to use
> a C wrapper.
>
> langX -> ( C API of langX | C Wrapper | C API of OCaml ) -> OCaml
>
Yes
> But could somebody tell me if ( and maybe how ) this can be done. I made some attempts, but
> there is always a main() function involved. But this C wrapper would be a shared library.
>
Exactly. You can deliver your OCaml code as shared library, and then
call it from
any language that can call a shared library.
Could you point out what problem you faced?
Salutations
Matt
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-01-09 8:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-01-08 22:45 Ben Aurel
2009-01-09 8:21 ` Matthieu Dubuget [this message]
2009-01-09 8:44 ` [Caml-list] Shared libraries with ocamlopt callable from C(without main())? RABIH.ELCHAAR
2009-01-10 1:22 ` [Caml-list] Shared libraries with ocamlopt callable from C (without main())? Ben Jakb
2009-01-10 11:50 ` Matthieu Dubuget
2009-01-10 15:28 ` Ben Jakb
2009-01-10 15:36 ` Matthieu Dubuget
2009-01-10 18:08 ` Ben Jakb
[not found] ` <200901101911.41594.monnier.florent@gmail.com>
2009-01-10 18:18 ` Ben Jakb
2009-01-11 16:27 ` [Caml-list] " Xavier Leroy
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