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Old 11-12-2003, 10:20 AM   #1
chris.hicks
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GNU C calls GNU Pascal?


I am continuing producing lots of little examples in C. I am wanting to call a Pascal producedure from C. I have done this many times using Sun's SparcWorks.

My Pascal function is in the file pascalfunc.p which is
[
procedure helloworld;
begin
writeln("Hello world in Pascal");
end;
]


However, when I do the compile gpc -c pascalfunc.p I get error messages because the compiler seems to be expecting a full program.
[nmansys@mmme1 c_examples]$ gpc -c pascalfunc.p
pascalfunc.p:0: warning: missing program header
pascalfunc.p:5: syntax error at end of input

I would be grateful for any ideas. I will publish my C examples when I have finished them all.

Chris
 
Old 11-13-2003, 08:48 AM   #2
chris.hicks
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Problem solved

I have hunted round and found the answer to my problem. The example consists of pascalfunc.p (contains the Pascal procedure), externpascal.h, externpascal.c (which contains main and calls the procedure) and a Makefile. To be honest, I don't understand the _p_intialize(argc,argv,envp); or _p_finalize(); lines or the associated arguments, but it works! I would be grateful for an explanation from any gurus out there.

Chris
------------------------- files attached in [ ]

pascalfunc.p:
[
unit Foo;

interface

procedure Helloworld;
procedure Hello1;

implementation

procedure Helloworld;
begin
writeln("Hello world in Pascal");
end;

procedure Hello1;
begin
writeln("Hello1");
end;

end.
]

externpascal.h:
[
extern void Helloworld(void); /*function in pascalfunc.p */
extern void Hello1(void);
]

externpascal.c:
[
/*Calling external pascal functions in C (from pascalfunc.p) */

#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>
#include "externpascal.h" /*contains extern statement */
#include <gpc-in-c.h>

int main (int argc, char* *argv, char* *envp)
{
init_Foo();
_p_initialize (argc,argv,envp);
Helloworld();
Hello1();
_p_finalize ();
}
]

Makefile:
[
pascalextern : externpascal.c pascalfunc.o
gcc externpascal.c pascalfunc.o -o externpascal -lgpc -lm
pascalfunc.o : pascalfunc.p
gpc --automake -c pascalfunc.p
clean :
rm extern.o externalfunc.o
]
 
  


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