So, you want to statically link object code from C, Ada and Haskell into one executable? Probably not. But how could that be done, anyway? Many programming languages provide a means both of exporting subroutines to make them callable from C code and importing C functions so they can call them. You can easily find documentation on how to statically link C to one other language. But what if you want link C with two different languages in the same project? Just compile all of the code separately and link the object files, right? Haha. Not so fast! Programming languages have different run-time systems; they have their own libraries and they may use more than just a stack and a heap and a space for global variables. So if you want to include object code from several languages in a single executable, you'll often have to build run-time code for each application and link it in to the executable as well. In this post, I'm going to demonstrate how you can accomplish this in a project that uses C, Ada and Haskell.
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Tuesday, March 11, 2014
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This is pretty awesome. I was aware of linking C with Java via the JNI (http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/technotes/guides/jni/) but I've never used that since I don't do desktop application development and the last time I wrote C or C++ was in college! Great article. Thanks for putting it together.
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