[Haskell-cafe] C Bindings?

[Gregory Wright]

Hi,

The Foreign Function Interface (FFI) is your friend for these tasks:

http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~chak/haskell/ffi/

On the haskell.org web page, under "libraries and tools" there are 
links to
a number of tools to help you connect your C & haskell programs.
The GreenCard and c->haskell tools seem to be used by a number
of people.

Alastair Reid's Guide to Haskell's Foreign Function Interface,

http://www.reid-consulting-uk.ltd.uk/docs/ffi.html

is a good place to start. It has some comparison of the various tools.


Best Wishes,
Greg


On Apr 13, 2004, at 12:56 PM, Russ Lewis wrote:

> Does Haskell have some mechanism that allows it to link to C, or other 
> imperative languages?
>
> I know, you could use the IO Monad to do it...using stdin and stdout 
> as pipes to any other program.  But is there a way to link Haskell 
> into a C program?
>
> Thanks again for the help for a newbie...
>    Russ
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