RE: [Axiom-developer] Re: libaxiom.a

[Page, Bill]

Camm,

On Wednesday, March 22, 2006 3:44 PM you wrote:
> 
> Bill Page writes:
> > ... It should be made easier to use Axiom
> > in this way, i.e. via an application programmer interface
> > (API). Right now it is possible to do this via socket calls.
> > This is how Hyperdoc communicates with Axiom. A library that
> > makes this transparent or which eliminates the sockets and
> > calls GCL directly would be very nice. GCL has a foreign
> > function interface and I think it should be possible to use
> > this in reverse.
> 
> Where did that mini-webserver-in-lisp project wind up again?
>

The Lisp code that you suggested works fine but for his own
reasons Kai Kaminski opted not to use it as part of the AxiomUI
project.

Camm, can you suggest where I should look in the GCL docs
and/or mailing list for info about calling GCL from "C" code?
How difficult is this?

Suppose I have some large program written in "C", e.g. maybe
OpenOffice or something like that :), and I want to call something
written in GCL. Can I do that without resorting to sockets etc.?

Regards,
Bill Page.