On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 8:28 AM, Volker Braun <vbraun.n...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I worked this week on a C/C++/Python library for message-passing IPC > over sockets, which could be a basis for making the interfaces to > external programs much faster (1000x) than the current pexpect > solution. This is at https://github.com/vbraun/libXon. One of the > sub-goals is to hook into Mathematica MathLink to directly exchange > data. > Bravo! > > Wolfram's shared library is dynamically linked at run-time, so you can > use different Mathematica versions without recompiling. A side-effect > is that we can compile and distribute a binary for the mathlink > interface without having access to Mathematica. > > This now needs some testing to iron out any quirks. You can do so > with the following commands: > > > git clone git://github.com/vbraun/libXon.git > cd libXon/ > ./configure > make > ./src/xon_server_mathlink math > > > where you might have to replace the "math" argument in the last > command with the command that you use to start text-mode > Mathematica. If you have access to Mathematica, please give it a try > and let us know how it works. I have tested it on Mathematica 8 and 9 > on Linux x86_64, which is all I have access to. Output should look > like this: > > > vbraun@mathematica:~/test/libXon$ ./src/xon_server_mathlink math > Opening libML32i3.so failed, error is: opening the mathlink shared library > failed: > /usr/local/Wolfram/Mathematica/8.0/SystemFiles/Links/MathLink/DeveloperKit/Linux/CompilerAdditions/libML32i3.so: > wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32 > Opening libML64i3.so succeeded, found the Mathematica mathlink shared > library. > MathLink version 3 - 23 > packet(8, 0x22, In[1]:= ) > packet(9, 0x22, Out[1]= ) > packet(4, 0x22, 2) > packet(8, 0x22, In[2]:= ) > packet(9, 0x22, Out[2]= ) > packet(4, 0x22, > 3.141592653589793238462643383279502884197169399375105820974944592307816406286\ > > > > 2089986280348253421170679821480865132823066470938446095505822317253594081\ > > > > 2848111745028410270193852110555964462294895493038196442881097566593344612\ > > ... lots more digits > > > 065792295524988727584610126483699989225695968815920560010165525637568) > packet(8, 0x22, In[3]:= ) > vbraun@mathematica:~/test/libXon$ > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "sage-devel" group. > To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel?hl=en. > > > -- William Stein Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://wstein.org -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel?hl=en.
