Part II. Extensions and libraries

Table of Contents

1. System building

1.1. Introduction

1.2. System definition files

1.3. Practical examples

1.4. ASDF Reference

asdf:make-build — Block-build an ASDF system definition

asdf:load-fasl-op — Compile and load one ore more libraries using unified FASL

2. Operating System Interface

2.1. Processes

2.2. Command line arguments

2.3. OS Reference

ext:*help-message* — Command line help message

ext:*lisp-init-files* — ECL initialization files.

ext:+default-command-arg-rules+ — ECL command line options

ext:command-args — List of command line arguments.

ext:process-command-args — Process command line arguments.

ext:quit — Exit ECL.

ext:run-program — Start and communicate with a child process.

ext:system — Invoke a command using the shell.

3. Foreign Function Interface

3.1. What is a FFI?

3.2. Two kinds of FFI

3.3. Foreign objects

3.4. Higher level interfaces

3.4.1. UFFI example

3.4.2. CFFI example

3.4.3. Low level example

3.5. FFI Reference

ffi:clines — Insert C declarations and definitions

ffi:c-inline — Inline C code in a lisp form.

4. Multithreading

4.1. Tasks, threads or processes

4.2. MP Reference

mp:all-processes — Return the list of active processes.

mp:exit-process — Exit the task from which it is invoked.

mp:interrupt-process — Interrupt a task.

mp:get-lock — Try to obtain a lock.

mp:giveup-lock — Release a lock we have obtained before.

mp:make-lock — Create a new lock.

mp:make-process — Create a new thread.

mp:process-active-p — Determine whether a task is running.

mp:process-enable — Start up a task which was not running.

mp:process-kill — Try to stop a running task.

mp:process-name — Return the name of a task.

mp:process-preset — Associate a function to a process.

mp:process-run-function — Create a task and execute a function in it.

mp:with-lock — Synchronize a piece of code between different tasks.

5. Finalization

5.1. Introduction

5.2. Finalization Reference

ext:set-finalizer — Associate a finalizer to an object.

ext:get-finalizer — Return finalizer associated to an object.

6. Meta-Object Protocol (MOP)

6.1. Introduction

6.2. Classes

6.3. Slots

6.4. Generic functions and methods

6.5. Sealed slots and classes