Re: [clisp-list] Making Foreign Function Calls on Win32

[Sam S. <sd...@gn...>]

> * In message <IKE...@cs...>
> * On the subject of "[clisp-list] Making Foreign Function Calls on Win32"
> * Sent on Fri, 18 Jan 2002 13:07:10 -0500
> * Honorable "Terry R. Payne" <te...@cs...> writes:
>
> However, it would appear that I need an executable "clisp-link", which
> doesn't appear in my distribution.

this is a unix-specific shell script.

> Have I understood the documentation correctly; i.e. that I need to
> call clisp-link to create a module, or is this a UNIX only method, and
> a separate method is required for foreign function calls on Win32
> (external modules, that use clisp-link, are UNIX only [2])?

clisp-link and dynamic modules are unix-only at the moment.

using libltdl (part of gnu libtool) should make it possible to port
dynamic modules to win32.  would you like to work on that?

I don't use FFI myself, so I cannot really help you here.

I suspect that linking lisp.exe with your *.obj files and using the
resulting executable to compile and load the FFI forms you write should
work.

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