7 The MLWorks Foreign Interface Library

7.1 Introduction

This MLWorks foreign interface library (FI, for short) is provided in the Interface structure. It is not built in to the MLWorks interactive environment, but is provided as a set of source and separately compiled files. See the installation notes for your version of MLWorks for details of their location.

The MLWorks foreign interface library provides facilities for interfacing ML applications to code written in C. The design accommodates other languages, and we may add support for them in future.

Note: The MLWorks foreign interface library may be revised and redesigned in future versions of MLWorks.

To use this library in your applications, add

require "$.foreign.__interface";

to the start of the relevant source files. To load the library into the MLWorks interactive environment, use the Build menu of the compilation manager or the functions in Shell.Build.

7.1.1 - Terminology

MLWorks Reference Manual (version 1.0) - 3 DEC 1996

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