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Calling Seq from C/C++

Calling C/C++ from Seq is quite easy with from C import, but Seq can also be called from C/C++ code. To make a Seq function externally visible, simply annotate it with @export:

@export
def foo(n: int):
    for i in range(n):
        print(i * i)
    return n * n

Note that only top-level, non-generic functions can be exported. Now we can create a shared library containing foo (assuming source file foo.seq):

seqc build -o foo.o foo.seq
gcc -shared -lseqrt -lomp foo.o -o libfoo.so

(The last command might require an additional -L/path/to/seqrt/lib/ argument if libseqrt is not installed on a standard path.)

Now we can call foo from a C program:

#include <stdint.h>
#include <stdio.h>

int64_t foo(int64_t);

int main() {
  printf("%llu\n", foo(10));
}

Compile:

gcc -o foo -L. -lfoo foo.c

Now running ./foo should invoke foo() as defined in Seq, with an argument of 10.

Converting types

The following table shows the conversions between Seq and C/C++ types:

Seq

C/C++

int

int64_t

float

double

bool

bool

byte

int8_t

str

{int64_t, char*}

seq

{int64_t, char*}

class

Pointer to corresponding tuple

@tuple

Struct of fields