<div dir="ltr">Vanessa's getenv example works for me. Now I want to learn how to invoke my own C functions.<div>I created the file "mylib.c" containing this:</div><div><br></div><div><font face="monospace">char* greet() {<br> return "Hello, World!";<br>}</font><br></div><div><br></div><div>Then I created a shared library for macOS with this:</div><div><br></div><div><font face="monospace">clang -dynamiclib -o libmylib.dylib mylib.c<br></font></div><div><br></div><div>Then I created this Smalltalk class:</div><div><br></div><div><font face="monospace">ExternalLibrary subclass: #FFIDemo<br> instanceVariableNames: ''<br> classVariableNames: ''<br> poolDictionaries: ''<br> category: 'Volkmann'</font><br></div><div><br></div><div>Then I added this class method:</div><div><br></div><div><font face="monospace">greet<br> <cdecl: char* 'greet' () module: '/Users/volkmannm/Documents/dev/lang/smalltalk/Cuis-Smalltalk-Volkmann/libmylib.dylib'><br> ^self externalCallFailed</font><br></div><div><br></div><div>Side note: I need to learn where this looks by default for shared libraries so I don't have to specify an absolute path.</div><div><br></div><div>Then I entered this in a Workspace and did a "Print it".</div><div><br></div><div><font face="monospace">FFIDemo greet</font></div><div><br></div><div>That opens a Debug window with the message "Error: Unable to find function address".</div><div><br></div><div>Can anyone spot where I'm going wrong?</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Sep 29, 2024 at 10:10 PM Andres Valloud via Cuis-dev <<a href="mailto:cuis-dev@lists.cuis.st">cuis-dev@lists.cuis.st</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Except of course getenv() is ruled by POSIX so doing that is at the very <br>
least not portable, if not outright wrong.<br>
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On 9/29/24 6:29 PM, Vanessa Freudenberg via Cuis-dev wrote:<br>
> And, defining a method myself works fine:<br>
> <br>
> getenv: var<br>
> <cdecl: char* 'getenv' (char*) module: 'libSystem.dylib'><br>
> ^self externalCallFailed<br>
> <br>
> And then<br>
> <br>
> MyClass getenv: 'HOME'<br>
> <br>
> <br>
> returns<br>
> <br>
> '/Users/vanessa' .<br>
> <br>
> <br>
> There really isn't much more to it.<br>
> <br>
> Vanessa<br>
> <br>
> On Sun, Sep 29, 2024 at 6:26 PM Vanessa Freudenberg <br>
> <<a href="mailto:vanessa@codefrau.net" target="_blank">vanessa@codefrau.net</a> <mailto:<a href="mailto:vanessa@codefrau.net" target="_blank">vanessa@codefrau.net</a>>> wrote:<br>
> <br>
> I just loaded the "Tests-FFI" package and it works.<br>
> <br>
> And you can e.g. run<br>
> <br>
> FFITestLibrary new ffiTestFloats: 3 with: 4<br>
> <br>
> which returns 7.0 because the plugin happens to implement<br>
> "ffiTestFloats()" as returning the sum of its two arguments.<br>
> <br>
> Vanessa<br>
> <br>
> <br>
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