Computer Science Canada External |
| Author: | chrisbrown [ Tue Dec 30, 2008 1:08 am ] |
| Post subject: | External |
If anyone knows, how would I incorporate a routine written in C into a Turing program? I know I need the "external" keyword, but do I need a dll extension or what? |
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| Author: | Tony [ Tue Dec 30, 2008 2:30 am ] |
| Post subject: | RE:External |
According to the documentation for external, half of it is not even implemented, and it sounds like it works differently for "run" and "stand-alone" versions of the code. Quote: the linkage would be by means of a standard, operating system-specific linkage editor.
It sounds like if you can get your OS to link a compiled library to your binary (by means outside of Turing?), Turing could actually run those routines... Though really, I haven't seen this done. Would be interesting if anyone could point to a working example though. |
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| Author: | chrisbrown [ Tue Dec 30, 2008 1:12 pm ] |
| Post subject: | RE:External |
Quote: Would be interesting if anyone could point to a working example Take a look in Turing\Support\Predefs. Most (all?) of the .tu's make use of the external keyword, but I can't figure out how or what it's linked to. |
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| Author: | Tony [ Tue Dec 30, 2008 3:57 pm ] |
| Post subject: | RE:External |
From what I remember, all that use of external does is redefines the keyword used to call code that is already available to the Turing environment. |
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