On Aug 24, 2010, at 10:50 AM, Yoann Padioleau wrote:

> 
> Hi,
> 
> Is there a way to call OCaml library from a C/C++ program without the C++ program
> knowing it's OCaml code ? I mean I can not touch the main of the C++ program
> so it has to be completely transparent and it would be good if each call to the ocaml library
> once finished free all the memory it was using.
> Can we call  caml_startup() multiple times ? is there a caml_cleanup ?
> 
> Ideally I would like from C/C++ to have:
> 
> 
> my_extension.c:
> char* sanitize_stuff(char *s) {
> 
>  caml_startup();
>  char * res = <call_ocaml_code_with_s>;
>  caml_cleanup();
>  return res;
> }

Also it is possible to have multiple independent ocaml runtime at the same time 
so such a function is thread-safe ?


> 
> and then link my c++ program with my_extension.o  and some .a containing ocaml code.
> 
> 
> 
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