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The Guile interpreter is available as an object library, to be linked into applications using Scheme as a configuration or extension language.
Here is simple-guile.c, source code for a program that will
produce a complete Guile interpreter. In addition to all usual
functions provided by Guile, it will also offer the function
my-hostname
.
#include <stdlib.h> #include <libguile.h> static SCM my_hostname (void) { char *s = getenv ("HOSTNAME"); if (s == NULL) return SCM_BOOL_F; else return scm_from_locale_string (s); } static void inner_main (void *data, int argc, char **argv) { scm_c_define_gsubr ("my-hostname", 0, 0, 0, my_hostname); scm_shell (argc, argv); } int main (int argc, char **argv) { scm_boot_guile (argc, argv, inner_main, 0); return 0; /* never reached */ }
When Guile is correctly installed on your system, the above program can be compiled and linked like this:
$ gcc -o simple-guile simple-guile.c \ `pkg-config --cflags --libs guile-2.2`
When it is run, it behaves just like the guile
program except
that you can also call the new my-hostname
function.
$ ./simple-guile scheme@(guile-user)> (+ 1 2 3) $1 = 6 scheme@(guile-user)> (my-hostname) "burns"