[Ecls-list] Build-shared-library gives multiple definitionserror

[Goffioul Michael]

> Thanks for your help.  I was able to get the library to 
> compile by specifying different file names.
> 
> But now I'm a bit confused.  I was hoping to use the library 
> in a C program which would load up the dynamically loaded 
> library at runtime to provide functions that would be called 
> from the main app.  The DLL would have to set up the Lisp 
> environment when loaded, and have exported functions which 
> can be called from the C program.
> 
> However, the c:build-shared-library appears to produces code 
> assumes a running ECL environment, so it can't be used from a 
> "plain" C program.  Is this correct?  And if so, is what I'm 
> trying to do even possible?  If it is, I'd greatly appreciate 
> if you could point me to some documentation or tutorials on 
> how to make shared libraries loadable from C programs.

The dynamic/static libraries won't init the ECL engine for you,
you'll have to do it yourself in your code, using cl_boot function.
Then you'll have to load your compiled library into the ECL engine:
each compiled lib defines a function called init_XXXXX (XXXX stands
for the module name); use this function with read_VV function as

	read_VV(OBJNULL, init_XXXXXX);

This is what ECL does when loading a FASL file. After that, your
code can call LISP functions either by using eval() or by calling
directly the C equivalent.

Michael.