Calling shared objects on Linux

Elzbieta Chludzinska elzbieta at operamail.com
Thu Feb 1 19:20:06 UTC 2001


Can you please give me an example of FFIPlugin being used to call a shared 
object library?


>===== Original Message From Bert Freudenberg <bert at isg.cs.uni-magdeburg.de> 
=====
>On Thu, 1 Feb 2001, Elzbieta Chludzinska wrote:
>
>> I want to call a shared object (on Linux) from Squeak.  I've been
>> reading the chapter in the "Squeak Book" entitled "Extending the
>> Squeak Virtual Machine".  I've read about the "Slang" dialect of
>> Squeak and using it to generate C code - cool!
>>
>> My question is: If I have a *.so that I want to call from Squeak,
>> should I build another *.so (using Slang) that calls the *.so I need
>> to invoke?  Is there another way?  Can the *.so be called directly -
>> in some fashion?
>
>Check out FFI - http://minnow.cc.gatech.edu/squeak/1414
>
>-- Bert

Elzbieta





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