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Interfacing to C and C++

Michael Mehl, Tobias Müller, Christian Schulte and Ralf Scheidhauer

Oz provides a simple yet powerful interface to dynamically link native C and C++ code to Oz. It provides for access and conversion from most Oz values to C data structures and vice versa and supports mechanisms to handle suspension for C(++) functions.

• 1 Introduction

• 2 A small Example

• 3 The C Part

• 4 Creating a DLL
  • 4.1 Compiling the C++ program
  • 4.2 Creating a dynamic library
  • 4.3 Linking a native module

• 5 Creating DLLs under Windows
  • 5.1 Known Bugs and Problems

• 6 Tuning the Example

• 7 Specification of the C interface
  • 7.1 General Remarks
  • 7.2 Data types
  • 7.3 Declaration
  • 7.4 Accessing arguments
    • 7.4.1 Accessing input arguments
    • 7.4.2 Accessing output arguments
  • 7.5 Type testing
  • 7.6 Conversion
  • 7.7 Term access and construction
  • 7.8 Exceptions
  • 7.9 Unification
  • 7.10 Threads
  • 7.11 Printing
  • 7.12 Miscellaneous
  • 7.13 Garbage collection
  • 7.14 Concurrent Input and Output

• 8 The Extension class
  • 8.1 Reference
    • 8.1.1 The class OZ_Extension
    • 8.1.2 Functions
  • 8.2 Example

• Index