[erlang-questions] Documentation on Binding a C library to Erlang

[Steve Vinoski]

On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 4:35 PM, kraythe . <kraythe@REDACTED> wrote:

> Greetings, I am a newbie to erlang. I am interested in binding a c library
> that I have as source (that I have written) to Erlang. In Java I would use
> JNI. In Erlang I don't know. Can anyone point me at where the docs are for
> this? Especially a tutorial. Google has been unrevealing and i have been
> through hundreds of dead ends.
>

If you really want the C library running together with the Erlang VM,
you'll write either a set of native implemented functions (NIFs) or a
linked-in driver. See the links below.

http://www.erlang.org/doc/tutorial/nif.html
http://www.erlang.org/doc/man/erl_nif.html
http://www.erlang.org/doc/apps/erts/driver.html
http://www.erlang.org/doc/man/erl_driver.html

--steve
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