On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 04:43:56PM -0800, Issac Trotts wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 07, 2004 at 11:05:24PM +0200, Basile Starynkevitch wrote:

> > However, for the beginner, the good answer (at least as given by Ocaml
> > gurus here) to the usual "I want eval" request is simply "no you don't
> > really need it"
> 
> That being so, how would you use OCaml as an extension language for a C
> program?  

I'm not sure to understand your point. Many applications coded in C
embed Ocaml inside. The simplest way is to give the application a
compiled ocaml bytecode file (which can be choosen at runtime) invoked
thru ocaml_main

See section 18.7.4 Main program in C of
http://caml.inria.fr/ocaml/htmlman/manual032.html

An alternative is to have the application being a custum ocaml
program, with lots of C primitives. This means that the ocaml runtime
system has the control and invoke appropriately the C primitives
provided by the application.

If you ask about embedding the ocaml toplevel into your application,
it is a different question. I agree that extending or embedding or
customizing the toplevel is not very well documented.

Regards.

-- 
Basile STARYNKEVITCH -- basile dot starynkevitch at inria dot fr
Project cristal.inria.fr - INRIA Rocquencourt
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