Calling C++ from OCaml

Calling C++ from OCaml

[Jean Yang]

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Hello,

  I've been trying to call C++ from OCaml by using OCaml's external C
interface to call C functions that call the mangled-name version of the C++
functions.  I've been running into trouble because I'm not sure how to
specify the C++ object files to link against with ocamlc.  (I'm not sure how
to do it using ocaml-make.)  Can anyone help?

  Also, is this the best way to call from OCaml to C++?

Thanks,
Jean

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Re: [Caml-list] Calling C++ from OCaml

[Roberto Bagnara]

On 02/15/10 17:32, Jean Yang wrote:
>    I've been trying to call C++ from OCaml by using OCaml's external C
> interface to call C functions that call the mangled-name version of the
> C++ functions.  I've been running into trouble because I'm not sure how
> to specify the C++ object files to link against with ocamlc.  (I'm not
> sure how to do it using ocaml-make.)  Can anyone help?
>
>    Also, is this the best way to call from OCaml to C++?

I am not sure what is the best way to call C++ code from OCaml.
However, we successfully interfaced the Parma Polyhedra Library
core, which is written in C++, to OCaml.  You can fetch a source
distribution from http://www.cs.unipr.it/ppl/ and look into the
interfaces/OCaml directory.
Hope it helps,

    Roberto

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