External libraries



Michel Van den Bergh wrote:
>> Until maxima gets a foreign language interface, maxima can't do that.  
>> If you want, you'll have to do it yourself, or use the f2cl-converted 
>> versions, if they should ever exist.
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> I am a little confused here. Does Maxima (or gcl) not have a facility 
> for using external
> libraries? That would be a serious limitation.
>
>   
Every Lisp that I know of has some kind of foreign function interface. 
The problem is that they're all different, and I don't think maxima
wants to support a different interface for each supported Lisp.

It seems CFFI is a good common choice, but unfortunately, gcl is not
supported there.

Ray