[Ecls-list] Embedding ECL interpreter in a C++ application

[Julian St.]

On Wed, 3 Mar 2004 09:30:03 -0800 (PST)
Michael O'Connor <moconnor59 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> However I need to be able to split the read / compile
> stages from the run stage (because the app is required
> to run the same lisp program repeatedly on different
> data sets, and I want to avoid the overhead of reading
> / compiling the file on each run). I'm unable to
> figure out what function calls are needed to perform
> these tasks separately, any pointers would be much
> appreciated.

You can compile your Lisp code to C from the commandline  and load it at
run time. Currently the ECL X-Chat plugin uses this approach. Look into
the Makefile to see how to do this. Boils down to 'ecl -compile
your.lisp -o your.fas' and cl_load(1,make_simple_string("your.fas")).
You can call the compiled functions as often as you like via cl_funcall.

It should be possible to compile your lisp source and link it directly
to your C(++) application, but I have been unable to accomplish this
yet. Any pointers? :)

Regards,
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