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From: Dmitry Bely <dmitry.bely@gmail.com>
To: Caml List <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] User-defined printers and external C code
Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2010 00:05:26 +0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <90823c941003281305n27ef6864w75f0ae10b510490e@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1269771858.2863.10.camel@ratschan-laptop>

On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 2:24 PM, Stefan Ratschan
<stefan.ratschan@cs.cas.cz> wrote:
>> The printing of Big_int is possible and AFAIK Big_int is an abstract
>> data type.
>
>> let print_big_int (value_big_int:Big_int.big_int) =
>>    Format.printf "%s" (Big_int.string_of_big_int value_big_int);;
>
> I see, thanks. If I interpret this correctly, then the same code is
> loaded twice. Once in the program to be debugged, once for the printer.
>
> Now I have the following problem: The ADT I want to print uses an
> external C library. Ocamldebug refuses to load it, saying:
> (ocd) load_printer ../smath/libsmath.a
> Error during code loading: ../smath/libsmath.a is not a bytecode object
> file

How is this C library linked into your Ocaml program? Probably the
custom runtime?

> Any ideas?

Dynamic loading should help you (see ocamlmklib chapter in the
manual). Then the C code will be placed into .so file and loaded
automatically then needed.

- Dmitry Bely


      reply	other threads:[~2010-03-28 20:05 UTC|newest]

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2010-03-28 10:24 ` Stefan Ratschan
2010-03-28 20:05   ` Dmitry Bely [this message]

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