Calling shared objects on Linux

Bert Freudenberg bert at isg.cs.uni-magdeburg.de
Thu Feb 1 16:00:25 UTC 2001


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





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