scsh-0.5/doc/external.txt

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External function calls
(GET-EXTERNAL string)
Returns an external pointer to the given name. A null will be added to the
end of the name if there isn't already one.
(LOOKUP-ALL-EXTERNALS)
Looks up all externals in the currently job. Ideally this should be called
automatically on startup.
(EXTERNAL-CALL external arg1 arg2 ...)
Calls the external value, passing it the number of arguments (as a long),
and a pointer to a C array containing the rest of the arguments (also
a long). Don't mess with the array, it is really the Scheme 48 argument
stack. The arguments are probably in reverse order, I can't remember.
(NULL-TERMINATE string)
The file dynload.c contains the function s48_dynamic_load which can
be called using EXTERNAL-CALL. To make it work you need to do the
following:
1) If you're using ultrix, link the VM using -N.
2) When invoking the VM, use the -o flag to pass it the name of the
executable file containing the VM. [This is done automatically by
the shell script created by "make".]
3) If your OS supports shared libraries, do as appropriate to arrange
for your C code to be position-independent and to create a shared
library.
If dynamic loading doesn't work you can always link the external stuff
in with the VM. The dynamic loading code has problems. I am not much
of a Unix hacker.
Here is a transcript on SunOS 4.something:
kama$ gcc -fpic -c test.c
kama$ /bin/ld -assert pure-text -o test.so test.o
kama$ file test.so
test.so: sparc demand paged shared library executable not stripped
kama$
kama$ scheme48
Welcome to Scheme 48 0.31 (made by jar on Sun Feb 13 18:33:57 EST 1994).
Copyright (c) 1993, 1994 by Richard Kelsey and Jonathan Rees.
Please report bugs to scheme-48-bugs@altdorf.ai.mit.edu.
Type ,? (comma question-mark) for help.
> ,open externals
Load structure externals (y/n)? y
[externals
/usr/public/sun4/lib/scheme48/big/external.scm ..............
]
> (define dynamic-load (get-external "s48_dynamic_load"))
> (external-call dynamic-load (null-terminate "test.so"))
#t
> (define test (get-external "test"))
> (external-call test "yow" 3)
string: yow
fixnum: 3
#t
>
If using cc instead of gcc, do "cc -pic -c ...".
(get-external "_s48_dynamic_load") and (get-external "_test") might be
required on some versions of Unix (like maybe SGI).
Here is file test.c:
#include "/usr/local/include/scheme48.h"
#include <stdio.h>
scheme_value test ()
long argc; scheme_value *argv;
{
int i;
for (i = argc-1; i >= 0; i--) {
scheme_value arg = argv[i];
if (STRINGP(arg)) {
printf ("string: ");
fwrite(&STRING_REF(arg, 0), 1, STRING_LENGTH(arg), stdout);
printf ("\n");
}
else if (FIXNUMP(arg)) {
printf("fixnum: %d\n", EXTRACT_FIXNUM(arg));
}
else
printf("?\n");
}
return SCHTRUE;
}