Re: ocaml dll in an Erlang runtime

2007/6/21, Jon Harrop <jon@...>:

On Thursday 21 June 2007 11:15:39 Matthieu Dubuget wrote:
> 2007/6/21, Joel Reymont <joelr1@...>:
> > I tried to build a shared library for use with Ruby once and failed
> > miserably.
>
> Could you please elaborate about this? Maybe not on this thread.
>
> I ask this, because almost all my OCaml code is use as shared libraries...

I think a lot of people (myself included) would benefit enormously if you
could explain in words of one syllable exactly how you can compile an OCaml
program into a DLL (.so on Linux) and call it from C.

Nothing automatic. I manually write all C functions, have them call OCaml callbacks, etc.
If this is actually what you have in mind, I can write and post one minimalistic example.

It is possible to have a tool to turn one OCaml library (CMA/CMXA) into one shared library.
See ODLL, from N. Canasse in the hump.

Salutations

Matt