Re: [Gcl-devel] gcl compile question 2

[Camm Maguire]

Greetings!  While it is certainly possible to call lisp functions from
a C program, as GCL is entirely based on C anyway, it will doubtlessly
require a lot of setup/initialization, as is currently done in main.c.  I
think you'll be better off calling your C functions from lisp.  There
are two ways of getting compiled C code into gcl:

1)  Put this in a lisp file and compile and load it:

        (clines "object foo_(object x,object y) {....; return z}")
        (defentry foo (object object) (object foo_))

2) Load externally compiled C modules into a new saved image:

        >(compiler::link nil "new_image_name" "" "foo.o bar.o")
        ./new_image_name
        >(defentry .....)

You can then invoke your C functions as lisp functions, aka (as in the
first example)  (let ((z (foo x y))) ...).  

GCL lisp objects are pointers to unions of structures, as defined in
the object.h header file in the h/ subdir, and included in the
cmpinclude.h file in installed distributions.

Hope this helps,

Take care,

Suleyman O Turkyilmaz <address@hidden> writes:

> okey i can keep translated c file etc.
> but can i link compiled *.o to a c program ?
> and
> if can
> how can i call translated lisp fonctions from c programs
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