How to call C functions in Flix?

[kcvinker]

Hi Flix team,
Seems like a nice language to try. Thanks for making this nice language. But how do I call C functions in Flix ? I mean I am interested to do some win32 api programming.

[magnus-madsen]

Flix runs on the JVM so interop with C will be annoying. You would have to go through Java JNI.

I believe the JVM will have better C interop in the future, but it is not yet there.

[magnus-madsen]

What do you want to program, specifically?

[kcvinker]

@magnus-madsen
First of all, sorry for the delayed reply. I was not very well for the last 2 days.

What do you want to program, specifically?

I would like to create a gui library with windows api functions like CreateWindowExW and siblings.

[magnus-madsen]

I think this will be difficult, but you could take a look at: https://medium.com/@atrisarkar91/calling-c-from-java-the-easy-way-project-panama-ce68bff0c865

[kcvinker]

Thanks. Let me check that.