Daniel Lakeland wrote:
>On Fri, May 18, 2007 at 12:21:29PM -0400, Kostas Oikonomou wrote:
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>>On a related subject: there is a rather sophisticated, public-domain
>>optimization code called "ipopt" (interior point method for constrained
>>nonlinear optimization, https://projects.coin-or.org/Ipopt), which is
>>being actively developed. ipopt is written in C++, but claims to have a
>>Fortran interface, which, I assume, could be translated with f2cl.
>>Does this sound like a feasible (in the non-optimization sense :-))
>>project for Maxima?
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>It is possible to create foreign function interfaces for C++ code, but
>this is dependent on which lisp you use for compiling maxima. I think
>there is no single FFI which works on all lisps supported by maxima.
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this is very general question (not only for ipopt), and it was mentioned
recently WRT lapack.
I wonder is it reasonable to assume that CFFI is available in all
supported lisps?
The only exclusion is GCL, so only these users will be without extrnal
libraries, but this is not for a long time, I hope.
Best regards,
Vadim.