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Article #581Re: Linking a C program to Mathematica (ver. 1.2)
From: Engelsma Jonathan
Date: Wed, 08 Apr 1992 20:28
Date: Wed, 08 Apr 1992 20:28
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In article <1992Apr8.171212.23130@socrates.umd.edu>, fletcher@socrates.umd.edu (Charles Fletcher) writes:
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|> Yes, you can get this from WRI (I believe it is still free),
|> but don't bother (yet.) As I wrote Shane, there a basically
|> five ways to connect C->Mma:
|>
|> 1) MathLink--This is a standard set down by WRI (and is suppose
|> to connect their kernels and frontends in the future.) For all
|> practical purposes, this doesn't work at this time (I would be
|> glad to hear from *anyone* to the contrary.) After making some
|> changes to the code, I did get the frontend example working
|> (see the MathLink directory under Mathematica.app) However, I haven't
|> gotten any of the simple examples to work that are given in the
|> docs (nor do I know anyone who has.) Some WRI reps told me that
|> MathLink still isn't working (note that WRI isn't using it.)
|> Word has it that it will be working in version 2.1, whenever that
|> comes along.
|>
I find this strange. I got the frontend and some of the examples
to work without modifications. Everything seemed to work as
documented.
BTW, anybody know how I can reach WRI via e-mail?
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.programmer,sci.math.symbolic Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uwm.edu!linac!uchinews!msuinfo!springer.cps.msu.edu!engelsma From: engelsma@springer.cps.msu.edu (Engelsma Jonathan) Subject: Re: Linking a C program to Mathematica (ver. 1.2) Message-ID: <1992Apr8.202856.24105@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> Keywords: Mathematica, MathLink, MathTool, OTI MathPalette, Mark Phillips Sender: news@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu Organization: Dept. of Computer Science, Michigan State University References: <1992Apr4.002423.7852@athena.mit.edu> <1992Apr8.132658.9582@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> <1992Apr8.171212.23130@socrates.umd.edu> Date: Wed, 8 Apr 92 20:28:56 GMT