[mercury-users] Mercury integration into existing C/C++ application

Alvin Beach abeach at deepvision.ca
Thu Mar 10 10:13:00 AEDT 2005


On March 9, 2005 06:25 pm, Julien Fischer wrote:
> On Wed, 9 Mar 2005, Alvin Beach wrote:
> > Hello all,
> >
> > I am currently working on a project that requires implementing several
> > rules. The rules are simple enough that I could implement them myself,
> > but maintaining the code could become very time consuming if/when I
> > modify, add and remove rules. My first instinct was to look into Lex
> > (flex) but it requires my project to link to the flex library.
> >
> > This has lead me to search for a state machine generator or as logic
> > progamming system (Mercury) that can be integrated into the project
> > without having to link to any external libraries. By integrate I mean,
> > the logic system would generate the necessary .o and .h that could then
> > be used by my project.
> >
> > I have read through the Mercury Tutorial by Ralph Becket as well as
> > looked through the Mercury User's Guide. Both are excellently written but
> > I could not determine how I could call the compiled Mercury C object code
> > from within my project?
>
> The foreign language interface itself is documented in the reference
> manual.  The Mercury distribution includes some examples of how to
> call Mercury code from C/C++ in the samples/c_interface directory
> directory.  (Despite the name it also includes examples of how to call
> Mercury code from C++ and Fortran).
>
> Julien.

Thank you Julien the samples were exactly what I was looking for.

Alvin
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